Your Beethoven Collection

[AeolianHarp]

You inspired me to bid on a Fidelio program. Just got it on Ebay for $4.50 USD shipped!
Bavarian State Opera 1945-46 Prinzregenten Theatre Fidelio Beethoven Program. Two programs, one in English, other German. The English version was licensed through the Military Government Information Control dated 1945-46 and gives a synopsis of the story. The German version is dated Munich, November 15, 1945. The only difference between the two is: two characters, the minister and one prisoner is played by different individuals. Excellent condition.

How nice Harvey! Your programme is even older than mine!
However I got a postcard from Bonn dating from 1900 the other day at the sum of just 99p and 95p postage. It is in excellent condition!

[Rocco]

I keep thinking that you're misspelling program, but then I remember you are in England.

Nice postcard though!

[AeolianHarp]

I keep thinking that you're misspelling program, but then I remember you are in England.

I am more's the pity!

Nice postcard though! :

Yes it is, nice to see his house as it was in 1900! It hadn't been that long a museum to him then- opened in 1889.

[Harvey]

Ah, that is a fine postcard!

My spell checker wants me to spell words the way they do in England on this and other sites. Maybe it's because the sites I post to are based in England? This one and StandardShift.com are.

[AeolianHarp]

English spellings are good hehe

[Harvey]

My Bavarian State Opera 1945-46 Prinzregenten Theatre Fidelio Beethoven program arrived yesterday. The English program has an interesting statement about the Fidelio opera:

According to Richard Wagner, modern opera (or music drama) originated with the intensely dramatic prison scene of the second act.

A turning point in opera, but I don't have the knowledge of opera to really understand it other than it seems perhaps opera was not as dramatic before Fidelio?

[AeolianHarp]

I don't know- never seen Fidelio, just clips on you tube, same goes for any other opera- mostly I just hear some arias on classic FM and have some of Mozart's on CDs. Never been to an opera so I cannot judge one way or another.

[Harvey]

I can only highly recommend the 1978 Bernstein Fidelio DVD to you. It is a treasure and I am certain that you would love it.

[AeolianHarp]

I bet I would!

[AeolianHarp]

Look what I got today in the second hand bookshop for £2!!!

















I proudly showed it to two Germans on the bus!

P.S it is vintage; possibly from 1870! That was the first publication.
Sorry for slightly blurry images- done on my phone- really must get batteries for the Canon camera my friend gave me!

[AeolianHarp]

I also got this from the same shop for 10p a few weeks ago:








Looks nice on my Cecil's music stand ( and nooooo I cannot play it....)

And this 1911 postcard from ebay a couple of weeks ago:

[AeolianHarp]

A music box I got from ebay last week.

[Harvey]

Beautiful music box. What songs does it play?

[AeolianHarp]

Beautiful music box. What songs does it play?

It plays Ode to Joy. I took a video of it playing but for some reason photobucket would only link it as a picture and not a video.

[Harvey]

It plays Ode to Joy. I took a video of it playing but for some reason photobucket would only link it as a picture and not a video.

Ah yes, Now I see "Beethoven Symphony #9" on the box flap. Very nice!