Tbilisi Opera House

Breaking News.  The Opera House, newly restored, opens on Sept 16, 2013 for its 162nd season.  I will miss it, I leave Tbilisi on Sept 14. In a 2004 letter I wrote:  “The Opera House looks like it came from the tails of Scheherazade, which have probably been preformed there many times.” In 2005 I wrote: “On Thursday Lika took me to the Opera.  It was the opening production of the season, which meant, in Georgia, the opera is Abesalom and Eteri (Esther) by Zakaria Paliashvilli.  It is kind of the Georgian national opera.” “The plot is sufficiently operatic; a … Continue reading Tbilisi Opera House