Trains to Weikersheim
The Tauber Valley is served by a single-track non-electrified railway line. Aside from local trains there are Regional Express trains from Aschaffenburg several times a day, and also a few Read More …
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La Bohème in Weikersheim 2019
The stage set for Act 1 of Puccini’s La Bohème in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace was dominated by a book with the German title Engel laufen nackt (Angels run Read More …
Weikersheim Palace Tour
Weikersheim Palace was originally just a routine medieval castle with a moat around it until the 16th century, when Count Wolfgang II of the House of Hohenlohe developed it into Read More …
Jacques B. in the basement
In addition to their main auditorium with eight hundred seats on six different levels, the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell in Paris also has a smaller hall in the basement Read More …
Jacques Offenbach at the Gymnase
The Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell is one of the many theaters on the grands boulevards in Paris — and no doubt one of the oldest, having been built in Read More …
Tauber Valley Village Museum
The stone building with the pointy roof on the central Market Square (Marktplatz) in Weikersheim is the Tauberländer Dorfmuseum, which is devoted to showing furnishings, equipment and tools that were Read More …
Weikersheim Palace Garden
Before the opera or during the intermission you can get a glass of champagne or Sekt here and go for a stroll in the garden. This is a formal baroque Read More …
The Merry Wives of Windsor
In 2009 in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace I saw three performances, with somewhat different casts, of the German opera The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai (1810-1849), based Read More …
La Traviata in Weikersheim 2005
Jeunesses Musicales presented the opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) in an open-air production in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace on nine evenings in July 2005. These biennial opera Read More …
Young opera in Weikersheim
Weikersheim is a pleasant country town (population 7,333) in the Tauber Valley, 63 kilometers upstream from Wertheim and 37 kilometers downstream from Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The surprising thing about Read More …