Getting Butterflies

EVERY summer - pandemics permitting - Bregenz holds an opera festival on what is said to be the world's largest floating stage, on the Bodensee (aka Lake Constance).

The opera is changed every two years - it was Turandot when I was here in 2015 and 2016, and Carmen in 2017.

This year marks my fourth visit, and the opera will be Madame Butterfly.

Early days, presumably, in the construction of the set for Madame Butterfly

I am far from being the world's greatest opera fan, but it is nice listening to the acoustics being tested with recorded opera songs while sitting in an outdoor arena in the sunshine watching stagehands, or whoever it is who builds a set, busy at work.