Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Opera on the lake

Something very special that we have in Vorarlberg are the Bregenzer Festspiele. It is a summer festival of music with the big attraction being the opera on the lake. They build the stage offshore on plattforms and the viewers sit on shore while watching the sun set behind the stage. 

It is absolutely spectacular and I have seen many operas there already. I was excited to finally show it to Ben. We have never been in Austria during July or August before and Ben has only seen the stage, but never a play.

We were lucky and got free tickets from my brother through his work and we had planned a nice night out. 
Unfortunately my vision of how this evening should have been was very different from last Saturday.
The weather has been awful this summer, lots of rain and very cold. And the day we had tickets was no different. We went for yummy Thai food first and then headed to the play - that part was great. But then we actually did not know until the last minute if the show was on or not. So we got prepared with as much clothing and rain gear as possible and headed to the event. 

When we got there it was raining a little and they were seating people. Unless it is not pouring the show is on! All decked out with my dads work rain gear we took our seats and hoped for the best - which would have been more rain and a new date for the show....

But shortly after the start (after everybody had to close their umbrellas) the rain stopped and it stayed dry the whole time. We even got to see a little sunset, it just was very cold and we were glad we had also brought a blanket.

I nevertheless enjoyed the opera "Andre Chenier" and thought the stage was amazing. I am looking forward to seeing "Die Zauberfloete" by Mozart next year - hopefully on a nice warm summer night!

Stairs up to our seats (me with the much needed blanket)

Before we sat down we put on our raingear

Walking up to our seats with stage behind us

The little sunset we saw just before the show started


The set and stage was amazing


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