Sylvia Lindenstrand

The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.

Le Nozze di Figaro at Drottningholm Court Theater

This performance, and the film that documents it, is superb! From its comically vulgar opening in the Garter Inn, where we are introduced to a rotund (and slightly pathetic) Falstaff - in a richly nuanced performance by baritone Gabriel Bacquier cocooned in prosthetic girth (his face is too thin for the enormity to be real) - to the supremely beautiful nocturnal magic of the Finale in Windsor Park, Solti is lovingly accompanied by the sublime Vienna Philharmonic. They play with such delicacy and elan what is an undeniably delicate score, that I lost myself in the instrumentation, forgot it was Verdi, thought it was Mozart, and couldn't remember which Mozartean Opera this was. The woodwinds and strings are singled out for special praise: perfect intonation and phrasing doesn't begin to do them justice. They breathe life into this score, propel it forward, act as a Chorus commenting on the action.

David, a middle-aged researcher, lives happily with his wife Ingrid and their kids. By a coincident he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Eva. Their relationship will only last a few months.

남자와 여자 사이에 전쟁이 일어난다. 소녀는 이런 현실로부터 도망쳐, 결국 이상한 유니 콘이 어떤 가족과 함께 사는 곳으로 가게 된다. 그 곳에서 소녀는 언니와 오빠를 비롯한 많은 아이들과, 무슨 일이 있어도 자기 침대를 떠나지 않고 라디오 옆에 붙어살며 세상과 소통하는 나이든 할머니와 함께 지내게 되는데...논쟁적인 이슈를 즐겨왔던 루이 말의 SF 판타지인 은 현대사회와 매스미디어, 그리고 소통에 대한 알레고리로 가득 차있는 우화다.