Operas in the Bockenheimer Depot
This barn-like structure in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim, near the old university campus, served for many decades as a depot for streetcars. I can remember when the whole place Read More …
Tag: Händel
Film Museum in Düsseldorf
The film museum has its own cinema, the “Black Box”, and four floors of exhibit space with displays of the history and aura of the movies. For example: “Film and Read More …
Händel’s Alcina in Hof, Germany
Händel’s Alcina was the first Baroque opera ever to be performed in Hof, a small out-of-the-way city in the extreme northeast corner of Bavaria. I went there in 2018 not Read More …
State Opera Berlin
When I think of Berlin I think of opera and construction sites — and here I was lucky enough to get both in the same photo, because they happened to Read More …
Rinaldo in Chemnitz
The Baroque composer and impresario Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) was a big fan of special effects, so I’m sure he would have liked the blue-screen production of his opera Rinaldo Read More …
Händel’s Julius Caesar at the Opéra Garnier
The opera Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) by Georg Friedrich Händel takes place in Egypt in the year 48 B.C. and has to do with Caesar’s Egyptian war and his love Read More …
Händel House and Music Museum
The great baroque composer and impresario Georg Friedrich Händel was born in Halle in the year 1685. His birth house and several adjoining buildings have been nicely renovated and now form the Read More …
Händel as an opera composer
The Händel House in Halle has an interesting exhibit on “Händel, composer of opera” where visitors can sit and watch Georg Friedrich Händel (as a sort of Monty-Python-style figure) come Read More …
The opera house in Halle
In May 2001 I was asked to take over a presentation in Halle at quite short notice. After agreeing to do it, I went online to see if Halle has Read More …
Marivaux at the Comédie Française
Founded in 1690 by Louis XIV, the Comédie Française is still going strong as the world’s oldest theater troupe. Their repertoire consists mainly of classic French plays from the 17th Read More …