Arias & Airships

BREGENZ today is best-known as a tourist destination, especially for German-speakers.

One of its attractions is that since 1946 it has hosted opera on the world's largest 'floating' opera stage, in Lake Constance (Bodensee in German).

The particular opera is changed every two years, with 2024 and 2025 seeing Der Freischütz (The Marksman).

The stage being finalised for this year's summer season

It looks so much more attractive in sunny weather than with a cloudy sky, as this post from less than a week earlier shows.

Recent Bregenz operas

Across the border in Germany, but also on the lake, is the town of Friedrichshafen, home of the Zeppelin.

Modern versions of the airship still fly, and can be ridden in, although when I last checked a few years ago a short flight cost about 300 euros.

A Zeppelin can just be seen against the sky in the distance