Opera Club
At the monthly meetings of the Opera Club, we are discovering opera one masterwork at a time. We meet several times to get to know a selected opera and then attend a performance together. Beginners are particularly welcome! Meetings are held Friday mornings in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel. Contact Elizabeth R. at
opera@awchamburg.org for more information.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:56
In this fresh new year 2018, naturally, we also have a new Opera Club project in the works. This time we will be turning our attention to
Ludwig van Beethoven's one and only opera, "
Fidelio". With its brilliant music and heroic central female character, Fidelio could hardly be a more…
Read more: Fidelio with the Opera Club
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Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2017 12:50

The AWC Opera Club’s new season is all planned and ready to go. This time, we will begin with two short projects to bring us through the autumn in fine musical fashion.
Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” will start us off with a double dose of Italian…
Read more: Autumn 2017 with the Opera Club: Murder, Love, and Passion, Italian-Style
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Last Updated on Friday, 24 February 2017 12:23

This week, the Opera Club had the pleasure of welcoming tenor Dovlet Nurgeldiyev back for an encore Opera Lunch with our group. We had a wonderful opportunity to catch up with his many varied activities and engagements in the two years since we all last met. Many new members were…
Read more: Encore Opera Lunch with Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 January 2017 07:56

Opera Club's brand new project begins on
Friday, January 27 at 10 a.m. Our opera of choice this time is
Gaetano Donizetti's beautiful, tragic opera "
Lucia di Lammermoor", which we will get to know at a series of monthly meetings, culminating in an outing to the Staatsoper in mid-May. As…
Read more: Opera Club: Lucia di Lammermoor
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Last Updated on Friday, 16 December 2016 08:52

The Opera Club succumbed fully to the joys, romance, and tears of Puccini's masterpiece "La bohème" at the Staatsoper Hamburg in early December. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at a lovely performance, followed up by a llively late dinner at the Ristorante Opera.
Read more: Bohemian Beauty with the Opera Club