Footnote: The Braunfels St. Joan onstage

My recent New York Times article on the growing interest in the music Walter Braunfels made reference to the belated theatrical premiere of the work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2008, which is tentatively scheduled for release on an Arthaus DVD in the fall. Worth noting: The production is by Christoph Schlingensief, the beloved German enfant terrible, who died last year of lung cancer at the age 49. His multimedia extravaganza, set on a revolving stage in more or less perpetual motion, fuses video, live action and outsider-style installation art in a hypnotic tapestry that against all expectation serves the supposedly arch-conservative Braunfels extremely well.