RECENTLY, it was 1919 again for Bratislava – at least in cyberspace.In a digital glitch, searches for Bratislava addresses on Google Maps yielded results for Pressburg, officially the city’s name last ...

“Dear friend! On Sunday, February 24, I’ll arrive by train to Pressburg at 12:48 p.m. Please, don’t prepare any ceremony, we are just meeting at the Palugyay Hotel.” With these words the world-famous ...

We are waiting outside. The wind is whipping our faces and nothing can stop it from penetrating closely tight coats. The sky is dark and does not promise any sun that day. We are trying to reach the ...

Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème Opera in four acts (sung in Italian). Giacomo Puccini, a master of effect in music drama and the most important exponent of Italian opera at the turn of the nineteenth and ...

The story of the singer Tosca and the painter Cavaradossi is a masterpiece of musical drama, an oeuvre electric with tension in which - unlike most other operas - nothing can be excised or abridged.