Rusalka in Antwerp
The two largest cities in Flanders, Antwerp and Ghent, had separate opera companies until 1981, when the two companies were merged to form the Flemish Opera — now known as Read More …
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The Lausanne Opera and Gabriel Fauré
The Opéra de Lausanne is the only opera house I know of that looks more impressive from the back than from the front. The front end still looks much the Read More …
Three opera houses in Prague
My first visit to Prague was on the 10,959th day of my life, or so I used to think. Actually it was only the 10,958th day, as I have since Read More …
Smetana statue and museum in Prague
This statue of the composer Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) is appropriately located on the right bank of the Vltava River, perhaps better known internationally by its German name Moldau. Behind the Read More …
Muzeum Antonína Dvořáka
This baroque two-story house was built in Prague at the beginning of the 18th century. It is now a museum devoted to the life and works of the Czech composer Read More …
Carmen in Coburg
Like many of the other opera houses in Germany, the Coburg State Theater was originally founded as a court theater. Coburg in earlier times was the Residence of the Dukes Read More …
La Bohème in Weikersheim 2019
The stage set for Act 1 of Puccini’s La Bohème in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace was dominated by a book with the German title Engel laufen nackt (Angels run Read More …
La Traviata in Weikersheim 2005
Jeunesses Musicales presented the opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) in an open-air production in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace on nine evenings in July 2005. These biennial opera Read More …
Young opera in Weikersheim
Weikersheim is a pleasant country town (population 7,333) in the Tauber Valley, 63 kilometers upstream from Wertheim and 37 kilometers downstream from Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The surprising thing about Read More …
The Long Table in Wuppertal
Quinquennially, that is once every five years, the city of Wuppertal holds a mid-summer celebration called ‘The Long Table’ (der lange Tisch) in honor of the city’s founding in 1929, Read More …