I was born in Zürich, Switzerland. My passion for the opera began at an early age during a performance of Mozarts "Die Zauberflöte“. I’m trying to bring opera closer to people who might not have had many encounters with this art form before, by writing about performances and pieces that fascinate me. For nearly 10 years I was a member of the Zürich Opera Children’s Choir. Since 2019 I'm enjoying the opera world as an extra at the Zurich Opera. Apart from opera and theatre, I enjoy literature, languages and nature. In 2021 I started studying musicology and law at the University of Zürich but still enjoy watching and writing about many opera performances. It’s never too late nor too early for anyone to start exploring this fascinating art form!
Considering the current deterioration of the epidemiologic situation, one would have never dreamed of being able to enjoy an opera alongside 15,000 ot...
If the countless works of the duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill have one striking feature, it is their ability to mask immense social criticism throug...
Staging an opera that is set in Paris during a cold winter around 1830 at an Italian open-air festival in midsummer is definitely not an easy task. An...
Abbé Prévost’s Novel “Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut,” written back in 173,1 was an inspiration to many opera composers, includi...
A premier at the Zurich Opera has probably never drawn so much international attention than the one of this production in early November. The reason f...
It is barely believable how political decisions can ban a cultural masterpiece from the mind of a society for almost a full century. Owing to his Jewi...
It happens quite often that Giuseppe Verdi’s 1862 opera La Forza del Destino is criticized for its implausible and weak plot. The focus is the love be...
What makes a story still so relevant even though it’s a part of ancient legends that have their origin over 3000 years ago? It’s the identification wi...
All’alba vincero! Vincero! Vincero! After these last words of Puccinis world-famous aria “Nessun Dorma” you could hear the sound of 3000 people on their feet ...
