Spring and Summer Opera Festivals in Europe and North America

[emiellucifuge]

Opera isnt always stars, big chorus, orchestra and amphitheater. There are plenty of smaller opera festivals where opera is explored in different forms.

One example is the Rotterdam Opera Days festival:
"Rotterdam is a city with a fascinating operatic tradition, even though it does not possess an opera house. Rotterdam was named as the cultural capital of Europe for 2001, since which time the various organisations there that produce and present opera have worked closely together. As a united body they make the provision and the production of opera and music theatre possible in the city, they keep its quality high and they take each others' activities into account. Opera Rotterdam* was the title of the original combined body made up of eight Rotterdam artistic organisations; it was later to found Operadagen Rotterdam, a contemporary opera and music theatre festival that was first held in 2005"

http://www.operadagenrotterdam.nl/en/about