Opera in Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken is the capital of the Saarland and is located on the Saar River near the French border. After the First and Second World Wars this area came under French Read More …
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Operas in Dessau
Gigantomania was a common feature of all the Nazi building projects, and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau was no exception. With over a thousand seats, it was one of the Read More …
Verdi’s Aida in Ulm
Several years ago I went to the City Theater in Ulm, Germany, to see their premiere of the opera Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). It was an ambitious production, set Read More …
Operas in Wiesbaden
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland and the Isles, was executed in 1587 at Castle Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire on orders of her cousin, Queen Elisabeth the First of England. In real 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 …
Komische Oper Berlin
Berlin is the only German city that has three full-scale professional opera houses. This one is called the Komische Oper or ‘Comic Opera’, but that doesn’t mean everything they do Read More …
The new opera house in Erfurt
Germany’s newest opera house is located in Erfurt, the capital city of Thüringen. This is the only new opera house to have been built in Germany so far in the Read More …
Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
Contrary to what I used to believe, the building which houses the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris is not an old dovecote (= pigeon house) that somebody decided to re-purpose Read More …
Opera in Würzburg
Würzburg is a city of 130,000 people, located on the Main River not quite 220 kilometers upstream from Frankfurt. There are fine bicycle paths all along the river, so it’s Read More …
Opera Library and Museum in Paris
The library-museum in the Opéra Garnier is one of the public sites of the French National Library (Bibliothèque National de France or BnF). It is located in the Rotonde de Read More …