Breganz Festival, Starring Puccini

It has been many years since I have attended an opera and to be honest I really hadn’t felt like I was missing anything. Last night I went to see Puccini’s Tosca, a classic, at the Bregenz Festival and couldn’t have enjoyed it more. While the human efforts were wonderful, it was the magnificent stage on the lake that blew me away. As the sun settled the lights of the elaborate stage grew bright the music began. Soon I was lost in the three act opera unfolding but always I was thinking about our backstage tour that afternoon and the amazing engineering that literally propelled Puccini’s piece into a technical miracle. From beginning to end my eyes darted around the ever changing stage. I’m not sure but I believe that much of the clapping at the end of the show was dedicated to the stage out on the water. It was well deserved!