A woman is alternately dressed and undressed, embraced and ravaged, blindfolded and released by ominous male figures in black. But at odds with her on stage environment, she is singing a love song from Schumann's 1844 Dichterliebe, In the Amazing May Time, one of Heinrich Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo from his 1827 Buch der Lieder. As soprano Julia Bullock sings from the classic Schumann German romantic canon: My tears turn Into ...