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Touring the Butterfly stage on Lake Constance

Posted onAugust 7, 2022August 7, 20225 Comments

In July 2022, after a gap of seventeen years, I returned to Bregenz and took another tour of the festival grounds and the lakefront stage, this time to see the stage that had been built up for Andreas Homoki’s new production of Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Since I Read More …

CategoriesBregenzTagsBackstage tours, Operas, Operas in Austria, Puccini

Touring the lakefront stage in Bregenz

Posted onJune 8, 2022June 8, 20226 Comments

You can take a tour of the Bregenz Festival grounds at 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 or 15:30 any day during the five-week festival season. The cost (as of 2022) is € 7.50 per person and usually includes the inside of the festival building, the grandstand, and of course the big stage Read More …

CategoriesBregenzTagsOperas, Operas in Austria, Puccini, Verdi

Tosca and 9/11

Posted onOctober 2, 2020October 13, 20202 Comments

Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is an opera I have seen about a dozen times in Frankfurt, with several different casts in two different productions. The first of these was Alfred Kirchner’s production, which had its premiere on September 8, 2001. The premiere was generally well received by the public Read More …

CategoriesFrankfurt am MainTagsOperas, Puccini

La Rotonde de la Villette

Posted onAugust 5, 2020October 29, 20206 Comments

La Rotonde de la Villette was built in 1784 by the architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) for use as a toll house. Anyone entering the city had to stop here and pay a tax on any merchandise they were bringing with them. If you have ever seen the opera La Read More …

Categories19th arrondissementTagsPuccini

La Bohème in Weikersheim 2019

Posted onAugust 10, 2019August 14, 20224 Comments

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 naked). This, we learned, was the quite successful first novel by a young author named Rodolfo Martinelli, who in this Read More …

CategoriesWeikersheimTagsOpen-air performances, Operas, Puccini

Teatro alla Scala

Posted onDecember 11, 2018December 5, 20182 Comments

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, Bellini, Verdi, Ponchielli, Boito, Puccini and many others. Some of the world’s greatest singers have performed here, like Maria Malibran Read More …

CategoriesMilanTagsOperas, Puccini

Ricordi and the Fantastic Five

Posted onNovember 26, 2018December 4, 20181 Comment

The one thing I really messed up on my visit to Milan in 2008 was that I didn’t see the exhibition Ricordi e i Fantastici 5 — and why not? Because I didn’t notice the little sticker saying it had been extended, so I thought it was all over before Read More …

CategoriesMilanTagsDonizetti, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi

Operas in the Arena

Posted onOctober 19, 2018August 14, 2022Leave a comment

On my visit to Verona in August 2006 I saw three open-air opera performances in the Arena: Verdi’s Aida, Bizet’s Carmen and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. What they had in common was that all three productions were by the same stage director, Franco Zeffirelli (1923-2019), who also designed the stage sets Read More …

CategoriesVeronaTagsBizet, Open-air performances, Operas, Puccini, Verdi

The Theater City

Posted onAugust 1, 2018October 13, 20204 Comments

Meiningen is a small city in southern Thüringen which advertises itself as “The Theater City.”  It has an impressive theater building with six Corinthian columns, dating from the year 1909, and a unique theater tradition going back to the middle of the 19th century. From 1866 to 1914 Meiningen was Read More …

CategoriesMeiningenTagsOperas, Operettas, Puccini, Schiller, Theatre

Operas and cycling in . . . Gelsenkirchen?

Posted onAugust 28, 2017September 21, 20183 Comments

In 1958 the Austrian singer-songwriter Georg Kreisler (1922-2011), author of Lola Blau and the hilarious Opera Boogie, made a lot of enemies in this part of Germany with his song Gelsenkirchen, in which he portrayed this city as the home of “our unique fuel-democracy” where lovely black gases waft gracefully Read More …

CategoriesGelsenkirchenTagsCycling, Operas, Puccini, Verdi

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