Posts : 476 Join date : 2011-01-31 Location : Germany
Subject: Händel Festspiele 4th June 2013, 20:47
Due to the flood alert in the area, the Festspiele have been cancelled completely today.
Artemis
Posts : 605 Join date : 2011-10-26
Subject: Re: Händel Festspiele 4th June 2013, 21:00
Duffy,
I'm so sorry to hear this; how heart-breaking for the artists and organisers after all their hard work (to say nothing of the audience). These floods certainly seem to be creating havoc - the Semperoper in Dresden is apparently boarded up with sandbags as well!
A.
Duffy
Posts : 476 Join date : 2011-01-31 Location : Germany
Subject: Re: Händel Festspiele 4th June 2013, 21:14
Artemis, I thought your were planning to go to Halle yourself...As far as Dresden is concerned, they learned a lot from the flood of 2002, the inner city is protected by mobile flood barriers.
Artemis
Posts : 605 Join date : 2011-10-26
Subject: Re: Händel Festspiele 4th June 2013, 21:29
Duffy,
I was planning to go to Halle but in the end decided against it as it was so much easier for me to travel to Versailles and other plans intervened. I do intend to go to a Handel Festspiele in the future; apart from anything else, I have to see Handel's birthplace ...