In the last weeks, I worked on the collection of Italian theatres and have put everything Italian online now.
From Abano to Volterra:
http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/id/2245AndreasP - 18. Aug, 20:22
After many years of construction, the stunning new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg will be opened tonight with a gala concert.
Here are some postcards:
Hamburg: Elbphilharmonie
Its predecessor, the Laeiszhalle (a. k. a. Musikhalle) will still be used for concerts:
Hamburg: LaeiszhalleAndreasP - 11. Jan, 11:05
My postcard of the
Sun Theatre, in Yarraville, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, isn't very old, but it has an interesting history. You can watch it being painted on an iPad by the artist,
Greg Ure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNnnNiQKNEAndreasP - 7. Nov, 17:48
Too many to be listed here, actually.
For a start, have a look at the cards from Albania, Angola, Australia, Barbados, Bosnia, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Montenegro, Oman, Papua New Guinea. Plus, the new opera houses of Oslo (Norway) and Göteborg (Sweden) finally got their pages.
I also added lots of cards from Germany, notably from Heidelberg, Hof, Kassel, Köln, Mainz, München (Gasteig), Münster, Neuburg, Norderney, Putbus, Rathenow, Ravensburg, Rüsselsheim, Schwetzingen, Sindelfingen, Sommerhausen, Stuttgart (Wilhelma), Trossingen, Walsrode, Weingarten, Wolfsburg, Worms, Würzburg.
AndreasP - 7. Nov, 15:38
Thanks to a fellow opera nut from America, I could add three postcards to the page showing the
Teatro della Concordia at Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy.
By the way, the illustration on the right serving as logo for this blog also shows this charming little theatre. It is taken from the official Italian postage stamp celebrating this theatre.
AndreasP - 8. Sep, 21:47
Actors at the stagedoor (or „Bühnentürl“ in Viennese dialect):
Another card that is not from this series, but somewhat in the same line:
Plus some other new images from Austria:
AndreasP - 8. Sep, 17:22
