I just came back from the opera „La Fanciulla del West“ of Puccini. From all the Puccini operas I heard so far (Tosca, Turandot, La Bohème, Madame Butterfly) I would say I like the music of this one most. It […]
I just came out from the concert of Peter Gabriel. Cool light show. The audience was a bit old but the songs were fresh 🙂
I have just been to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/) again. They played at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt today. The concert was fantastic as always! 🙂 But what I really liked: today is the birthday of two […]
I have been to the opera yesterday: Daphne from Richard Strauss. I definitely liked the music but I do think the libretto is crap (and from what I have read it was the third version of it). Outstanding was Maria […]
I’ve just heard „Ein Deutsches Requiem“ (a German Requiem) of Brahms sung by the Dresdner Kreuzchor. It was recorded for a CD production and you could not only feel the tension among the singers and musicians, but also among the […]
Today I have seen two shows: first another time Billy Elliot the Musical. It was the penultimate show of Harrison Dowzell, one of the best Billy actors ever. And it was easily one of the best shows of BETM since […]
I was back at BETM today and hoping to see Ali again. I was not disappointed! As I was less occupied today with not having seen the show for half a year I could concentrate a bit more on Ali. […]
I haven’t seen the show since six month and besides Harrison non of the current Billys. So I was excited to see Ali today and if he could manage to bring back the fascination of the show for me again. […]
Yesterday I have seen a spaghetti western in the opera – actually it was just a western, but since they sung in Italian we declared it spaghetti western. It was „La fanciulla del west“ of Puccini. The production was quite […]
The performance of „The Dream of Gerontius“ by Edward Elgar was simply fantastic! The music is exceptional and the performance of the singers and the orchestra was great! Very good opening of „Dresdner Musikfestspiele“!
The very highlight of this London trip was „The Audience“ with Helen Mirren as Queen, talking to her Prime Ministers. One could ask, was should be interesting about such a thing and for sure it is very British and you […]
Today I saw „Beautiful Thing“. First I was afraid I would not like it, because I have seen the German Premiere on 11th Jan 2008 and the play a couple of times and Ioved it. It is always difficult if […]
Finally I went to „Peter and Alice“ at the Noel Coward Theater. The play was about the namegivers to Peter Pan an Alice in Wonderland who met and told themselves about their lives. Alice was played by Judy Dench and […]
Yesterday I heard St. Matthew Passion for the second time this year. Slightly better than the first time I would say. One of the best – if not the best productions I have ever heard! Fantastic solists; I have never […]
Yesterday evening I have been in Dresden listening to the Boys Choir again. They sung Christmas Songs and it was quite moving. Especially „Lasst uns lauschen“ was very touching. Here is a youtube version of this song from the same […]
I have just been to the English Theatre in Frankfurt and have seen one of the best theater productions this year about Alan Turing: „Breaking the Code“ (http://www.english-theatre.org/). Father of computer science and a very colourful man!
I have just enjoyed the Matthew Passion performed by Choir of the Cross (Kreuzchor) with some very good solists, Ute Selbig among them! It is one of the finest pieces of classical music. I enjoyed todays performance even more than […]
These days I really got a treat! Today I could experience Adam Vesperman in Billy Elliot the Musical and he was extremely good! My impression is that he is much more relaxed now. Still his Interpretation of Billy is more […]
No big review, just some personal remarks about todays show. The cast was nearly the same as on Saturday and the show no less spectacular! I found the audience a bit flat at least on the left side of the […]
It has been a while since my last time at BETM. Had not seen the new cast yet, I don’t even know their names. It was the new Mrs. W and Dad yesterday. I loved Mrs. W: a very good […]
