@Unresigned88@AlexaCoghlan Manchester has many players who commute to / rent in London for work. A fast growing city with no opera company - quite remarkable that it does not have one.
The Margravial Opera House is a real MASTERPIECE
in the town of Bayreuth, Germany, built between 1745 and 1750 according to the official story . It is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and has been extensively restored on 30 June 2012
From the State Opera to Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin is turning off the lights at its landmarks one by one in a scramble to save the energy it needs to heat homes in winter.
https://t.co/EZDoWI9nWg
If it ain't baroque, don't fix it ...
(The Margravial Opera House (German: Markgräfliches Opernhaus) is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany, built between 1745 and 1750.)
“I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”
🎶#OTD in #Music#History 26 July 1882 #RichardWagner's 3-act #opera "Parsifal" premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany. #Wagner wrote the libretto. It took him 25 years to finish the opera.
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July 23, 1961: American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, she earns 42 curtain calls.
#opera
Wagner’s final opera, Parisfal, was performed for the first time #onthisday in Bayreuth, Germany, in 1882.
Here’s a #throwback to our 2003 performance of this epic opera, featuring the incredible Scottish baritone, Donald Maxwell #WNO75