A talk by Francis Albou
When I was in Reims in 2013 I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Francis Albou about the second act of the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Read More …
Tag: Mozart
Operas in Stuttgart
The State Opera in Stuttgart has a great reputation for high quality, innovative opera productions. I have seen quite a few operas in Stuttgart, including L’italiana in Algeri (The Italian Read More …
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 …
Eleven times as marvelous?
Germany’s largest opera house was built in the 1990s on the site of an old railway station, incorporating the station’s elaborate entrance hall and front façade. The station itself had Read More …
The Semper Opera House in Dresden
Performances at the Semper Opera House in Dresden are often sold out weeks or months in advance. When this happens you will notice because they remove the ticket icon from Read More …
Operas in Mannheim
The National Theater in Mannheim was founded in 1779, but the current building is a modern one that was built from 1955 to 1957. It has a large glassed-in foyer Read More …
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 …
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 …