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 …
Tag: Operas
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 …
Verdi’s Troubadour at the Opéra Bastille
This audience at the Opéra Bastille in Paris turned out to be highly enthusiastic, rewarding all four of the lead singers in Verdi’s Troubadour with bravos and prolonged applause after 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 …
State Theater on Gärtnerplatz
Besides the Bavarian State Opera, Munich also has a second full-scale opera house called the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. They do all their operas in German (or Bavarian!), not in the Read More …
Cavalli and Wagner in Dortmund
My immediate reason for going to Dortmund in 2011 was that I really wanted to see Katharina Thoma’s highly praised new staging of the opera L’Eliogabalo by the early Baroque 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 …
Donizetti in Gießen
Gießen is a city of 86,000 inhabitants, located on the Lahn River in the center of Germany, about 60 kilometers north of Frankfurt. Gießen is the home of the Justus Read More …
Deutsche Oper Berlin
This distinguished gentleman casting a skeptical eye at Berlin’s largest opera house is none other than the great English playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616), whose bust was given to the city 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 …