BEYOND BRUSSELS

RODERIC DUNNETT journeys to Antwerp and Gent
and finds good things on offer at de Vlaamse Opera

<< Continued from part 1

Leading British directors are regularly invited to Gent and Antwerp : Warner, Antony McDonald and Nicholas Hytner (see below), to name but three. So too was the fast-rising, peculiarly inventive Scottish director David McVicar, who followed up a notable Idomeneo by staging last season's new production of Offenbach's last masterpiece, The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Mireille Delunsch's Antonia and Marc Claesen's Crespel were among several outstanding performances.

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