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: Verdi
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 …
The Aalto Theater in Essen
In 1958 the city of Essen conducted an architects’ competition to design a modern new opera house. The winner was the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). Of course just winning 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 …
Verdi’s Aida in Ulm
Several years ago I went to the City Theater in Ulm, Germany, to see their premiere of the opera Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). It was an ambitious production, set 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 …
Operas in Darmstadt
As it was originally built in the early 1970s, the Hessen State Theater in Darmstadt was a grotesque example of car-oriented architecture. It consisted mainly of a large parking garage, Read More …
Komische Oper Berlin
Berlin is the only German city that has three full-scale professional opera houses. This one is called the Komische Oper or ‘Comic Opera’, but that doesn’t mean everything they do Read More …
Richelieu-Louvois Library
The Richelieu-Louvois Library is one of four Paris locations of the National Library of France, which in French is called the Bibliothèque nationale de France, abbreviated BnF. The other three Paris Read More …