Museums in Innsbruck
The Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck is a museum for pre-history, early history, art history, music history, graphics and natural sciences, in other words just about everything. My first photo Read More …
Category: Austria
Opera in Innsbruck
Looking at this sturdy little theater today, you’d never guess that it used to have the reputation of being one of the most totally botched and bungled construction projects of Read More …
Pfänder Mountain cabin lift
It’s nearly always a bit hazy over Lake Constance, but on a (relatively) clear day you can get some fine views by taking the cabin lift from Bregenz up to Read More …
The Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is one of the world’s busiest opera houses, with 350 performances per year. When I was there, in the last week of October 2016, Read More …
The People’s Opera
The Volksoper (meaning “People’s Opera”) in Vienna puts on about three hundred performances per year — nearly every evening from September through June — of operas, operettas, musicals and ballets. Like the Read More …
Museum der Moderne
This Museum of Modern Art is up on a cliff overlooking the city of Salzburg, Austria. If you don’t feel like walking up (which I didn’t because it was pouring Read More …
Hohensalzburg Fortress
The Festungsbahn going up to the fortress overlooking Salzburg is Austria’s oldest funicular railway that is still in operation. It was built in 1892, and now takes people up from the Read More …
Krenek at Neue Oper Wien
All you loyal readers of my Kaiserslautern post might recall that one of the operas I saw there was Jonny spielt auf by Ernst Krenek (1900-1991). This was the opera that Read More …
Theater an der Wien
This historic theater got its name from the fact that it was built on the bank of a small river called the Wien — a river that has since been Read More …
Mozart House in Vienna
During his ten years in Vienna, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived at a number of different addresses. His apartment at Domgasse 5 is said to be “the largest, most Read More …