Verdi’s Don Carlo in Geneva
One of William Shakespeare’s biggest fans in the 19th century was the great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), who based three of his operas on Shakespeare plays, namely Macbeth, Otello Read More …
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Love in the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1559
My favorite thing about Fontainebleau is the music it inspired at the beginning of the five-act versions of the opera Don Carlos (in French) or Don Carlo (in Italian), by Read More …
The opera house in Strasbourg
When people ask me which opera I would take with me to a desert island if I could only take one (I’ve really been asked that), I always say it Read More …
The Theater City
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, Read More …
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 …
Operas in Dessau
Gigantomania was a common feature of all the Nazi building projects, and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau was no exception. With over a thousand seats, it was one of the Read More …
Operas in Wiesbaden
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland and the Isles, was executed in 1587 at Castle Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire on orders of her cousin, Queen Elisabeth the First of England. In real Read More …
Lyon’s unmistakable opera house
One thing I’ll say for the Lyon opera house: you can’t mistake it for any other building in Lyon, or for any other opera house in the world that I Read More …
The Tulip Girls
If you look at a map of Karlsruhe, Germany, you will see that there are streets radiating out from the Palace in all directions. Actually the back ones radiate out Read More …