James Gaffigan and Komische Oper Berlin featured in New York Times

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Opera and Classical Music to Experience in Europe This Winter
By A.J. Goldmann
New York Times
December 23, 2023

“The Golden Cockerel,” Komische Oper Berlin in the Schiller Theater, Jan. 28-March 20

A new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Golden Cockerel” at the Komische Oper Berlin is the first premiere to be led by the company’s newly minted General Music Director, the American James Gaffigan. This riotous and surreal take on the fairy-tale opera by Mr. Kosky, who ran the Komische as artistic director from 2012 to 2022, has also graced stages in Aix-en-Provence and Lyon, France, and Adelaide, Australia. In Berlin, it becomes the company’s latest foray into Slavic repertoire after inventive and gripping productions of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” Prokofiev’s “The Fiery Angel” and Shostakovich’s “The Nose.”

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