The Glyndebourne Hippolyte et Aricie (or “Fridge Rameau” as I fondly call it) is so near to my heart that the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s brainy new production is a tough sell to me. (Apparently it has something to do with “post-humanism and the Anthropocene”? And mirrors and lasers.) So I don’t know that I will watch the livestream this Saturday—which seems to be geoblocked, by the way. But folks should know about it; the music sounds fantastic in this preview clip.












