Tickets look fairly well sold this run, let’s hope Frankfurt Opera revive the production soon - especially given the vast amount of work the cast, orchestra, stage techs have put in.

Saddened overhearing Brits on the tram afterwards gossiping about some tiny costume failures (in a two-hour non-stop sequence of onstage changes), rather than talking about, you know, the actual music or the opera’s existential themes.

And each of the 14 right-wing or far-right UK Culture Secretaries since 2010 has lazily squawked “arms length”, to attempt to obscure their complete lack of understanding and strategy for the arts and arts funding.

Here’s hoping.

That’s great, thanks for the link. The Städel exhibition includes his preliminary sketches for that work, much cleaner narrative in the full (if unfinished) version.

Route plan and replica of Hindemith’s model railway set; the pianist Artur Schnabel often joined him on the floor of the Hindemiths’ flat to play with the trains.

Hmm. Parents asking their children, “Did you have your Ludus Tonalis with your eggs for breakfast?”

I was of course looking for a reaction, and thank you for the link. Not completely forgotten but his name comes up only rarely. Other than performers/academics/critics, no one I know talks about him ever.