Operas in Darmstadt
As it was originally built in the early 1970s, the Hessen State Theater in Darmstadt was a grotesque example of car-oriented architecture. It consisted mainly of a large parking garage, Read More …
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Operas in Bonn
The Bonn Opera has had some setbacks in recent years, for instance a flood and a fire as well as reduced federal funding now that Bonn is no longer the Read More …
Singing in the reign
Aachen is a border city just six kilometers away from the Three Countries’ Corner, which is a place up in the woods where the borders of Germany, the Netherlands and Read More …
Operas at the State Theater Braunschweig
My immediate reason for visiting Braunschweig in 2007 was to see Kerstin Maria Pöhler’s staging of the opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). This is now one of the Read More …
Operas at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) was an Italian opera composer who spent many years in Paris and later in Berlin. His best-known opera, La Vestale, was first performed in Paris in 1807. Read More …
Mozart House in Vienna
During his ten years in Vienna, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived at a number of different addresses. His apartment at Domgasse 5 is said to be “the largest, most 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 …
Theater an der Wien
This historic theater got its name from the fact that it was built on the bank of a small river called the Wien — a river that has since been Read More …
Ten days, eight operas, seven venues
The amazing thing about my visit to Paris in June 2006 was that in ten days I saw eight operas at seven different venues. As I wrote at the time, 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 …