Le Capitole
For a long time I have known that the opera house in Toulouse is called the “Théâtre du Capitole”, but I didn’t realize (never having been there before) that the Read More …
Tag: Operas
Through the Looking Glass
In 2014 the Grand-Théâtre in Bordeaux was open all summer for an exposition called Au-delà du miroir, which means “Beyond the mirror” or, as they translated it, “Through the looking Read More …
The National Opera of Bordeaux
Bordeaux is one of six French cities with a ‘National Opera’, the others being Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Montpellier and Nancy. As I have noted in one of my Nancy posts, Read More …
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 …
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 …