Two videos of “Ali Pascha Von Janina”

Performed at the National Opera Theatre of Tirana, 26 march 2013. Featuring Erlind Zeraliu as Robert Eriona Gjyzeli as Arianna.

Posted by George Overmeire on April 7th, 2014 | Comments Off on Two videos of “Ali Pascha Von Janina” Posted in Uncategorized

A rare find in a german antiquarian bookshop.

Last summer I visited Dresden and as always I looked forward to visiting some antiquarian bookshops; especialy the “Dresdener Antiquariat”, because it has a lot of out-of-print books and musical scores. This time I was very lucky; not only did I find (at last!) a piano score of Lortzing’s “Der Wildschütz” (The Poacher), that is […]

Posted by George Overmeire on October 7th, 2012 | Comments Off on A rare find in a german antiquarian bookshop. Posted in Uncategorized

Salamander – An “Undine”- novel.

Jürgen Lodemann is probably even more a fan of Albert Lortzing than I am. In 1962 he wrote his dissertation “Deutsche Bürgerlichkeit. Lortzing und seine Spielopern” on Lortzings Spielopern. In 2001, a Lortzing memorial year, he published “Lortzing, Gaukler und Musiker”, and last year he published his novel “Salamander – a novel” It is not […]

Posted by George Overmeire on May 31st, 2012 | Comments Off on Salamander – An “Undine”- novel. Posted in Uncategorized