The Old Opera in Frankfurt
When I first moved to Frankfurt in 1970 we lived in a fourth-floor apartment not far from the city center. From our bathroom window we could see the ruins of Read More …
Tag: Concert venues
Berlin Philharmonie
The Philharmonie in Berlin is an early example (perhaps even the earliest?) of a modern concert hall with the orchestra in the middle and the audience seated in irregular blocks Read More …
Concert at Radio France
I have a thing about woodwind instruments. If I believed in reincarnation I think I would want to come back as a flute. But only as one particular flute played Read More …
Théâtre de l’Île Saint-Louis
This lovely little theater is tucked away at the end of a courtyard on the Île Saint-Louis, the smaller of the two islands in the Seine in the center of Read More …
Concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
In June 2012 I went back to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, this time to attend a benefit concert with the Ensemble Matheus, conducted by Jean-Christophe 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 …
Philharmonie de Paris
After huge cost overruns and years of bitter controversy, the Paris Philharmonic concert hall (Philharmonie 1) finally went into operation in January 2015. The architect, Jean Nouvel, boycotted the opening Read More …
Musikverein in Vienna
The Musikverein (Music Society) maintains this ornate historic concert hall in the center of Vienna. The one concert I attended here was many years ago, so I have no photos Read More …
Mozart in the Madeleine
When he died in December 1791 at age 35, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was still working on his last composition, his Requiem Mass in D Minor (K. 626). The Read More …
Brahms in the new Concert House
Copenhagen in the 21st century has not only built itself a stunning new opera house, but also a world-class concert house called the DR Koncerthuset — “DR” being Danish Radio Read More …