Ottone, Re di Germania (Otto, King of Germany) was Händel’s fifteenth opera, composed in 1722 and first performed on January 12, 1723 by the Royal Academy of Music at the King’s Theatre Haymarket in London. I saw it three centuries later, in March 2023, as part of the 45th International Read More …
If you look at a map of Karlsruhe, Germany, you will see that there are streets radiating out from the Palace in all directions. Actually the back ones radiate out through the woods and the front ones through the city. It was all planned this way by the Margrave Karl Read More …
The current building of the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe was completed in 1975. It replaced an older theater that had been destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. Today the theater presents a very full program of opera, ballet, concerts and spoken drama, performed mainly by their own Read More …
In 2004, I took a backstage theater tour of the Baden State Theater during their annual Open House. They started a new tour group every ten minutes or so, and said right at the start that they would follow the yellow arrows posted throughout the building, so anyone who wanted Read More …
The ZKM Center for Art and Media opened in 1997 in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the center section of this former factory building. Aside from being a museum, the ZKM includes Institutes for “Visual Media”, for “Music and Acoustics” and for “Media, Education and Economics”, which means that the whole place Read More …