Vasilisa Berzhanskaya

A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

With her village under siege, a daring widow implores the invading general for mercy. Catching the military man with his trousers down, she uses all...

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of...