Vienna exudes luxury and refinement wherever you look. It is an elegant city, educated, own most of the nineteenth century of centuries in which we operate. In many of the streets that still exudes imperial splendor of the era of Franz Joseph I or Sissy. We only have to close our eyes and remember many of the movies based on those years to get an idea of what is now Vienna.
The Opera House in Vienna is one of the symbols of that imperial Vienna. Luxury and splendor from the first step that we go up the hall. Just getting to the Ringstrasse and jump in front of his porch and it is amazing, with these magnificent five bronze statues, designed by Julius Hähnel, representing heroism, fantasy, humor, drama and love.
The Opera House in Vienna, new-Renaissance style, was built by architects Sicadsburg and van der Null, and inaugurated on May 25, 1869 with the works of Mozart, Don Giovanni. Years later, despite the rejection of the Viennese style was built So, when a bomb almost completely destroyed the theater during the Second World War, March 12, 1945, took the attack as a personal affront, and accompanied the end despite the recognition of a great work, the symbol of Vienna. The reconstruction was almost complete, and gave the Opera House in Vienna in a stage and an auditorium equipped with the latest technology of the time. Reopening took place on November 5, 1955 and such a great time the work was performed Fidelio, Beethoven.
Once we cross the gates of tickets you are faced with a magnificent staircase, a marble staircase adorned with sculptures by Gasser, representing the seven arts, and reliefs from ballet and opera. The grand staircase leads to the impressive lobby, known as the Hall Schwind, as was the painter who decorated it. destacana the room busts of great composers and conductors such as Gustav Mahler made by Rodin in 1909.
A little further up is a private room, lounge area, where Franz Joseph and his closest friends had a moment of leisure in the intervals. It still held the silks with the initials of the great emperor.
The audience is simply amazing, but as a curiosity, mention that even today, there the dance is held the Vienna State Opera, the last Thursday of Carnival, a real social event for people of high society. The ladies are to be clothed in white, and enter the arms of their respective companion among the strains of classical music, as in those old time dances. To celebrate this dance, auditorium seats are covered and thus earn enough space to turn into a ballroom.
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Source: http://locuraviajes.com/blog/el-teatro-de-la-opera-en-viena/
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