Letter from Dresden; Wayne Gooding finds a city that's renovating its musical heritage brick by brick.

Opera Canada | June 22, 2008 | Copyright

According to a wry local joke about the changing face of this beautiful city, which sits deep in the German southeast near the Czech border, each passing year sees the completion of two or three new historical buildings. If you stand in the square in front of the cupola-topped Frauenkirche, the serious point of the quip is evident all around. On one side, a hoarding announces the renovation and reopening as a seniors' residence of a building on the site of the house, built in 1530, where the Saxon court composer Heinrich Schuz lived and worked from 1629-1627. On another side ...

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