Just in case you didn’t know. Today is Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart’s (He didn’t like using his name Amadeus and preferred Amadeo) 250th birthday!!!! Wooooooooooo HOOOOOOOO!!Bravo!!! Bello Bellamente dearest Wolfie!!! Thank God for your gifts!!! You make my life sane and blissful. My favorite opera of Mozart’s is Don Giovanni, which was first performed in Prague on October 29th in 1787. He wrote this opera in the fall of 1787 and it took him one month to compose. The Prague theatre still stands today and that is where the famous but rather inaccurate movie Amadeus was shot. Vienna and Salzburg Austria will be hosting all of Mozart’s operas this year in celebration of his 250th! Mozart was born in Salzburg and lived in Vienna, city of musicians for most of his professional life.
Here is a great website with lots of festive Mozart events for the entire year!!!
Vienna, Austria is also home of the beautiful Lippizzan horses and the Spanish Riding School. Here is a great link.
http://www.wien.info/article.asp?IDArticle=10095
