Gidon Saks on Gender in Opera

I’ve recently become involved with Opera on Tap Berlin‘s production of ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann‘, which is going up on February 20/21 at the Stummfilmkino Delphi in Berlin (get tickets here). In singing the character tenor parts in the show, I’ve been able to experience a completely different kind of singing acting than I’ve experienced before. Sure, I’ve […]

That One Time I Went To A Feminist Porn Event

There are many splendors that Berlin has thus offered me in my short time here already: excellent coffee, compassionate friends, helpful strangers, bike lanes, an efficient subway system, and now a feminist porn movie awards event. The various criteria needed to be included in the award ceremony was pretty enormous. Here were the criteria: A […]

Finding an Apartment in Berlin

Since I’ve been in Berlin, I’ve had only a few major priorities: Get a German phone number Get to know the city Practice German Find an apartment The other priorities have seemed to fall into place, but the process of finding an apartment in Berlin has been slightly more elusive to me. Coming from the […]

Arrival to Berlin

Today was pretty interesting, I’ll give it that. In fact, today was two days, but when you’re traveling, any sense of time is thrown out the window. I woke up a bit earlier than my earlier, or my roommate’s alarm, and immediately showered, dressed, and started checking things off on the To-Do list I had […]