On tour with my bike

Since the weather was nice last week i went on a ride with my bike.
I didn't know where to go so i just followed the streets wondering where they would lead me to.

















After like 11/2 hour ride i found myself in austria at the lakeside looking at the newly build harbour of Bregenz.

Not too far behind i spottet what looked like 3 giant dragon creatures. And then it hit me, they are playing "the magic flute" or "Die Zauberflöte" (in german) this year. I wanted to see this opera since i was a little girl!!









Since i have come this far i went inside and had a look at the stage and the stand.

















They have a board outside the stall where every single Opera is listed that has been played on this stage since it was found back in 1989.





My favourite one so far is the "Maskenball" from 1999/2000. The stage was huge and just very very impressive!!!

The James Bond fans here might now the stage from "Tosca" 2007/2008 since Daniel Craig was seen on this stage for his movie "James Bond -
Quantum of Solace"




Some random snaps i made on my way back home.

Opera on the lake 2014

"The Magic Flute"

Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a playful fantasy midway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute, premiered in 1791, will be returning to the Bregenz Festival lake stage in summer 2014. It is directed by the festival's artistic director David Pountney with a stage design by Johan Engels, and costumes and puppets designed by Marie-Jeanne Lecca. Accompanied by the bird catcher Papageno, three enigmatic ladies and three prescient boys, Prince Tamino sets off on his mission to free Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, from Sarastro's clutches.

The Magic Flute conveys an enlightened, humanistic ideal of man: at the end it is a normal man and a normal woman who bear responsibility for the future of society, while the machinery of power serving queens and priests reveals itself to be nothing but superfluous bombast. At one point, Sarastro's priest asks if Tamino will manage to complete all the ordeals since he's a prince. Sarastro answers, "More than that he's a human being!" And by the end of the opera we do indeed see Tamino and Pamina no longer as prince and princess, but simply as a man and a woman. For me, that's the essence of this work. The Magic Flute is steeped in the ideas of the Enlightenment, a movement that placed its faith in human reason and thus called into question the authority of time-honoured powers like the aristocracy and religion.

David Pountney

^{Artistic director and stage director of The Magic Flute}

Bregenzer Festspiele

Spring is early this year!!

Wow, outside it looks like we already have may.




Temperature is as high as summer and even the sun is

stronger than normal in march.


I got my first sunburn of 2014

and hopefully the last one as well


It's 9.30 p.m. now and outside it is still warm enough

to go out in light cloth...


Thats's what the spring in my garden looks like now












I love spring time!!



My most favourite season of the year!!!







Good Night