Classical opera

The classic musical The Phantom of the Opera begins it's Australian tour at the iconic Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Carmen

From classic masterpieces to contemporary tours de force

Artisans of Leisure arranges private tours of the renowned Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, for travelers on our private France tours.

Maria Callas converted me to opera. I am sure I am not unique in this, except in the particulars. In my early college years I immersed myself in recordings of the nineteenth-century symphonic repertory—Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, the Russians—but for a long time I refused to listen to opera, would listen to an overture and then rush to change the record before the singing started. Then one day my roommate put Callas's 1953 Tosca on the turntable and dropped the needle onto “Vissi…

The Markgräfliches Opernhaus - the Margravial Opera House - is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany. It is one of Europe's few surviving theaters of the period and has been extensively restored; in 2012, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Built between 1744 and 1748 according to the plans of French architect Joseph Saint-Pierre, court architect of the Hohenzollern margrave Friedrich III of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and his wife Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia. The…

Vienna Opera House

Constant Moyaux

Verdi's La traviata gives us one of opera’s most glorious heroines, a woman of boundless humanity and emotional depth, in this exquisitely romantic story.

Happy Halloween, everyone! This is my final spooky-themed post (until next year of course!) and it’s just in time for The Universal Blogathon hosted by Silver Scenes. Could there be a better …

Fine art gallery in Dallas, Texas specializing in Contemporary, Impressionism, Western, Traditional, Abstract, Still Life, Floral, Figurative and oversized pieces as well as fine sculpture.

Albert Guillaume (1873-1942) was a French illustrator and painter with a satirical mindset. His Wikipedia entry is here. Guillaume usually poked fun at the haute bourgeoisie, so for this post I decided to present some of his works dealing with the theatre. Gallery Musique savante The music lover seems inspired, but I'm not so sure about the others nearby. La Loge au théâtre He tended to depict pretty younger women with older men, so maybe there was a good deal of that during the Belle Époque…