Wiener Staatsoper
Austria
Stand on the Ringstraße and look at the arcaded front, and you are looking at the part of the building that survived. At the end of the Second World War the opera house caught fire after American bombing raids. The auditorium tiers and the stage were lost to the flames, but the front section was spared: the carriage arcade, the entrance hall, the staircase, the loggia above it, the Schwind Foyer with its frescoes by Moritz von Schwind, and the vestibule. So was the court box salon the emperor once used. What greets you first is still the original historicist interior; what you sit in for a performance is a later rebuilding.
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