Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Freiberg
A slight source of confusion for foreigners in Germany is that there are numerous place names ending in -berg (= mountain or hill) or -burg (= castle), and it can Read More …
Tag: Operas
Light and shadow in Weimar
My recent visit to Weimar was ‘between the years’, as the Germans would say (meaning in the week between Christmas and New Year’s), so the square in front of the Read More …
Two Marthas in Detmold
Detmold is a city of fewer than 75,000 people which inherited its theater, but not much else, from the former Principality of Lippe. This tiny principality had Detmold as its Read More …
Operas in Zürich
The opera house on Lake Zürich was designed and built in 1891 by the Vienna architects Fellner and Helmer, who were involved in building no fewer than forty-eight theaters and Read More …
The lost generation of opera composers
In June 2010 in the Zürich opera house I had a super box seat with some lovely people for a performance of the opera Der ferne Klang (The distant sound) Read More …
Mozart’s Magic Flute in Bielefeld
For many years, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, the Theater Bielefeld was famous in Germany for its unusual programming, featuring long-forgotten operas and the new works of contemporary composers. Read More …
Teatro alla Scala
Here it is, Milan’s legendary Teatro alla Scala, one of the world’s oldest (and newest) opera houses, first built in 1778, scene of the world premieres of operas by Rossini, Read More …
Views of Teatro alla Scala
When I took this photo on a sunny spring morning I was trying to get La Scala from the same angle as in a famous painting by Angelo Inganni from Read More …
Seating in the galleries at La Scala
The two upper tiers at La Scala are known as the galleries. For my second evening at La Scala I paid € 24.00 for a ticket in the last row Read More …
Teatro degli Arcimboldi Milano (TAM)
This state-of-the-art 21st century theater was inaugurated on January 19, 2002 with a performance of the opera La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, and for the next three years this was Read More …