Travelling and enjoying opera performances
The plan to catch a new production by Alvis Hermanis in Vienna emerged as soon as the opera house announced 2016/2017 season, and a possibility to combine Easter break with a trip to Vienna proposed enticing opportunity. The symbolism of seeing Parsifal on Easter Sunday came only when the ticket was secured and travel plans […]
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Springtime in Rome is one of the best reasons to combine a visit to the eternal city with a great opera – and exactly this was my plan booking a long weekend in Rome in cold January evening. Both targets well achieved – the weather was sunny and above 20c and Marina Rebeka as Maria Stuarda […]
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It has been 7 weeks since my last opera trip as a virus forced to cancel plans during February, but the performance in Munich gave me an unexpected reward and even more: such emotional fulfilment and happiness that it is still difficult to put the impressions in writing. The production of Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano […]
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The decision to revisit Liceu came spontaneously and was triggered by simultaneous discovery of one January weekend without opera trip and opportunity to see acclaimed Willy Decker production I have not seen yet, with very tempting cast – Anna Catarina Antonacci, who impressed me in short and brave Sancta Susanna in Paris, together with Piotr […]
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The long awaited and triumphal coming-back prima happened a few days ago, thus all of us gathering for the second performance of Lohengrin in Opera Bastille were throbbing impatiently in presentiment. In the adrenaline rush just a day before the sacred date I have logged onto Opera de Paris web page and sourced another ticket, […]
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Giacomo Puccini is one of my favourite composers, but somehow until now I have seen La Fanciulla del West only as livestream or MetHD and thus was quite eager to see it live with a great cast. As there was a plan to come to Vienna for La Sonnambula, the opportunity to see Aleksandrs Antonenko and […]
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To get into opera travel on Friday, 13th might be an adventurous proposal even for the least superstitious opera fan as it turned out. Flight delay, mad dash by a taxi from the airport to arrive at the evening box office to collect the ticket just 5 minutes to start, then get changed in a […]
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The opening of the new season in Teatro alla Scala is the event of utmost importance that stretches beyond Italian borders both in societal and cultural aspects. This year, the third part of the project launched by Maestro Chailly to reabilitate originally composed versions of Puccini operas – now Madama Butterfly (1904), gained unprecedented publicity […]
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Was it real or did I dream it? How much of our lives are real, how much of it all happens in our minds? Are we mostly mirroring the world or being a mirror for the world ourselves? Have you experienced any traumatic experience, being it sexual assault or another form of violence, that made a […]
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One of the most intriguing questions while preparing for Cavalleria Rusticana / Sancta Susanna at Opéra Bastille was an unusual pairing of those two operas and intrigue how the director would have solved linkage between those quite different pieces. What was clear before the performance – this will be unsurpassed opportunity to hear two outstanding […]
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