September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
The Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, currently the largest concert hall and opera house in Germany, began its young life with a much different distinction. Opened in 1998 as a privately financed venue, it was originally a disaster of near comic proportions. Rife with mismanagement, lack of funds, and public disapproval, the Festspielhaus faced closure only three months after opening.
In order to turn the Festspielhaus from a catastrophe into something resembling a viable undertaking, the city of Baden-Baden injected public funds into the project and replaced ...
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