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Just over two years ago, Europe was still living in relative peace, despite the ominous winds blowing from the East. Now winters, springs and summers have come and gone with their waves of life, while on the fertile plains of Ukraine, machine-gun fire rumbles and rifles replace the sweet song of the dumkas. Some would have us believe that Russia has been a barbaric country for centuries. The claim is overused, because such a vast territory has made its mark through

The 23/24 season at the Opéra de Rennes opens with one of the major successes of the 2022 edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, a production of Claudio Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea by New York director Ted Huffman. It features Johannes Schütz’s Spartan set design (here revived and adapted by Anna Wörl), distinguished above all by the enormous tube – half black and half white – that hangs above the protagonists throughout the evening, like a symbol of the duality between good