Albert Ehrnrooth

Journalist, photographer and social commentator.

Month: July 2015

WAGNER MUSEUM COMPLEX OPENS IN BAYREUTH

  The 104th edition of the Bayreuth Festival has just kicked off with Christian Thielemann conducting Tristan und Isolde. Thielemann was recently appointed as the very first music director of the Bayreuther Festspiele.  The opening night saw the usual procession of German celebrities, high nobility […]

GRUBEROVA REIGNS ONCE MORE IN MUNICH

ROBERTO DEVEREUX by GAETANO DONIZETTI  Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano Bayerische Staatsoper, seen at the Nationaltheater in Munich, 15th of July 2015 Age is no hindrance, when you are singing. Placido Domingo is 74 years old and has during the last decade […]

ARABELLA’S ARCHAIC SMILE WINS HEARTS

ARABELLA by R. Strauss/H. von Hofmannsthal Seen at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich 14/07/2015 I have been racking my brain for a couple of days now, but I am pretty sure it is called an ‘archaic smile’. Anja Harteros’s lips […]

THE BEST OPERATIC HAIRCUT AROUND

SAMSON ET DALILA by CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS Seen at Grange Park Opera June 24, 2015 The story, taken from the Book of Judges, about a classic haircut is well-known. We are all familiar with that sinking feeling and loss of potency […]