Whatever else you might have heard about Toulon, you should be aware that it has a gorgeous nineteenth century opera house — one of the largest opera houses in France outside of Paris. The Toulon Opera aka Théâtre Municipal was inaugurated in 1862. A few years ago it was beautifully Read More …
The Théâtre Royal de Liège, home of the Royal Opera of the Wallonia, was closed for several years to be reconstructed and enlarged. When I was there in 2011, I had the impression that the original building would be dwarfed by the new tower for stage machinery which was under Read More …
The composer André-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) was born in Liège, and his birth house has been turned into a small museum. Grétry was extremely popular during his lifetime. He composed about fifty operas, mainly comic operas, none of which I have ever seen or heard. I went to the museum on Read More …
After the excellent guided tour of Rousseau’s house we had a ten-minute break before the next tour began. Purely by chance I had come to Montmorency on the one day of the month when there was a guided tour of the temporary exhibition on the composer André-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813). Although I Read More …