American Women's Club of Hamburg
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…
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 and early winter in fine musical fashion.
Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” will start us off with a double…
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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… 
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.
What is Puccini's "La bohème"? Is it perhaps the most widely known and loved opera in the Western world? Or a deeply touching story of love and loss set to a treasure trove of unforgettable melodies? Or Opera Club's new autumn project? The answer is, of course, all of the… 
What a great 2015/2016 opera season for the Opera Club! Our two projects, J. Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" in the autumn and Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" in the winter/spring, never failed to delight us with incredible music and inspiration. The respective performances that we attended received some of the best reviews ever from our members and made for a pair of wonderful evening outings. Here are several photo highlights.
