House of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp
For many years in the seventeenth century, this house in the center of Antwerp was the residence and workplace of the Flemish painter and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). In Read More …
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Hello, my name's Don. I'm an American living in Frankfurt am Main, Land Hessen, Germany, where I teach, ride a bicycle and go to the opera.
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German Emigration Center
Bremerhaven, as the name implies, is the harbor city belonging to the city of Bremen, which is 50 km upstream on the Weser River. Over a period of 150 years, Read More …
Rossini in Bremerhaven
From the outside, the City Theater in Bremerhaven looks rather cramped and austere, but inside it is pleasant, with wood paneling on the walls both in the lobby and in Read More …
Rusalka in Antwerp
The two largest cities in Flanders, Antwerp and Ghent, had separate opera companies until 1981, when the two companies were merged to form the Flemish Opera — now known as Read More …
The Lausanne Opera and Gabriel Fauré
The Opéra de Lausanne is the only opera house I know of that looks more impressive from the back than from the front. The front end still looks much the Read More …
La belle Hélène in Lausanne
The composer Jacques Offenbach was born in 1819, so 2019 was his bicentenary. This cartoon by the front entrance of the Lausanne opera house shows him saying “200 years, already…?” Read More …
Open-air book market in Antwerp
For two-thirds of the year, from March to October, an open-air book market is held on the third Sunday of every month from 10 am to 5 pm at the Read More …
Antwerp
Like most cities in Flanders, this one has different names in different languages: Antwerp in English, Antwerpen in Dutch and German, Anvers in French, Amberes in Spanish, Antuérpia in Portuguese, Read More …
Grote Markt
For many years in the twentieth century, Antwerp’s Grote Markt (Large Market) was used as — you guessed it — a parking lot for automobiles. But now the cars have Read More …
The first King of the Belgians
In the Restoration period of the nineteenth century, every self-respecting European country had to have a King. So when Belgium declared its independence from the Netherlands in 1830, finding a Read More …