Metz is built partly on islands and partly on the shore of the Moselle River, which gets its name shortened to Mosel further downstream when it crosses the border into Germany. There it flows through the city of Trier and eventually unites with the Rhine at Koblenz. My first two Read More …
The three big museums of Metz are all together in one complex, called La Cour d’or (The Golden Courtyard). The first is the archeology museum, which was built on the site of the ancient Roman baths that were excavated here starting in 1932. As in Saarbrücken, which is 60 km Read More …
Currently there are about ten TGV trains per day going from Metz to Paris (and the same number from Paris to Metz) via the new high-speed railway line TGV-Est — provided there are no strikes in progress and the country isn’t shut down because of an acute pandemic, as in Read More …
Metz, which in French is pronounced approximately like the English word mess (but with a different vowel sound, in French it’s open-mid front unrounded and in English it’s close-mid front unrounded, okay?), is a city of 124,000 people on the Moselle River. Their opera house, the Opéra-Théâtre on Place de la Read More …
I was reminded of this small theater in France by an outstanding new production of the opera From the House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček (1854-1928), which premiered at the Frankfurt Opera in April 2018. Among other innovations, the stage director David Hermann added a silent character of “a Read More …