FYI, I checked out the Baverian State Opera website to see whom Mr. P was referring to: http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/c.php/index_bso.php?l=de&dom=dom1 I then did a search/display of their April 2004 schedule.
Compared to the any USA arts center beyond New York City the volume and scope of activity is phenomenal.
As pointed out by Bob Marlatt, Munich is very special place for music (as are Berlin and Vienna). But there are many other German cities whose offerings might give "any USA arts center beyond New York City" a run for its money. Mannheim, for example, fields an "A" orchestra (no frills, and plenty of orchestras in front of them in the pecking order). Excluding early music, modern premieres, ballets, and the orchestra's own concert series, last season Mannheim had the following operas on the boards:
Aida, Andrea Chénier, Bluebeard's Castle, Boris Godounov, Carmen, Cav/Pag, Das Rheingold, Der fliegende Holländer, The Queen of Sheba, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, A Midsummer Night's Dream, La clemenza di Tito, Elektra, Götterdämmerung, Hänsel und Gretel, I masnadieri, Idomeneo, La Bohème, Lohengrin, Madame Butterfuly, Mitridate, Nabucco, Otello, Parsifal, Siegfried, Turandot, Un ballo in maschera.
Did I mention that Mannheim's population is about 320,000?
Bill Melton Hauset (B)
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