Advantages: Clean, Friendly, Pretty, Warm.... Disadvantages: Best to know some German
Freiburg, die schönste Stadt derWelt, or the most beautiful place in the world, as it has been described. Not only is it a very pretty place, but it is also the hottest place in Germany in the summer. I have visited Freiburg twice as part of an exchange with my school, once in year 10 and the second time, more recently in year 12. Both times I fully enjoyed my experience, and although only I was only there for 7 days both times, we managed to get quite a lot out of the region, one of the highlights being the trip to the Europaprk, a theme park not too far away from the city centre.
Europapark can be reached from the main train station in Freiburg through a bus service (that's how we got there anyway) and the journey does not last too long, probably around half an hour. The theme park is divided into 'countries', with each country in ...
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Advantages: I am glad I was introduced to this one. Disadvantages: One dodgy track could have been omited.
Auf Der Maur were a band that I had not heard of before last week. It was not till I read a review by one-true-ben that they came to my attention. I was interested enough to investigate their web site and was very impressed and I downloaded the four available video's from there and have been listening to them for days while I have waited for the album to arrive.
I am writing this as I listen to it for the first time because I wanted write it now to get my first impressions. I haven't even opened it yet.
It says on the cellophane wrapper,
'Le premier album de Mellisa Auf Der Maur en collaberation avec les meilleurs musiciens du rock nord-american'
The album arrived from CDWoW via airmail from Hong Kong, actually faster than the royal mail would have delivered it from next door, but that is beside the point. I am trying to ...
Advantages: Great cast, conductor and orchestra, top notch production Disadvantages: None, to be honest
all things are relative!?
Anyway, once you get around the issue of people singing most of the time, I have to say that the vast majority of operatic plots do deal with situations that are actually very realistic in terms of human nature - love, treachery, war, ambition, envy etc - and this is definitely the case with Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" ("The Rose Kavalier".) The main aspect which has to be explained right at the start is that the character of Octavian - a male - is sung by a woman. Why? Because he is supposed to be only 17 years old and having a middle-aged tenor just wouldn't cut it dramatically. For me it is no different from the female Principal Boy in pantomimes.
Richard Strauss wrote the opera to a libretto by his long-time collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal and it was premiered in Dresden in 1911 ...
1. Die Zauberharfe, D644_Overture 2. No. 1, Entr'acte in B minor after Act 1 3. No. 2, Ballet No. 1 in B minor 4. No. 3a, Entr'acte in D after Act 2 5. No. 3b, Romanze: Der Vollmond strahlt (sop) 6. No. 4, Chorus of Spirits: In der Tiefe wohnt das Licht 7. No. 5, Entr'acte in B flat after Act 3 8. No. 6, Shepherds' melody 9. No. 7, Chorus of Shepherds: Hier auf den Fluren 10. No. 8, Chorus of Huntsmen 11. No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G 12. Alfonso und Estrella, D732_Overture 13. Ballet No. 4 in G Major
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