Barrie Kosky pinned with prestigious German award
"An important role model": Australia's Barrie Kosky among artists to receive Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit.
April 10, 2024
"An important role model": Australia's Barrie Kosky among artists to receive Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit.
Clive Paget recommends a week with the Vienna State Opera, Glyndebourne's Vanessa, and asks who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg?
Barrie Kosky’s animated production of Mozart’s Singspiel has been stunning audiences globally. Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt from innovative British theatre company 1927 tell us how a “hyperactive little Australian” convinced them to stage their first opera.
Shostakovich was 20 when he began writing The Nose. Barrie Kosky was around the same age when he fell in love with it.
The one-time enfant terrible is now the toast of Covent Garden and Glyndebourne and runs his own opera company in Berlin.