Alte Oper Frankfurt Schedule

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Among the invited guests was Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany, who was impressed and stated, Das kà¶nnte ich mir in Berlin nicht erlauben. (I couldn't permit myself this sort of thing in Berlin.)The citizens of Frankfurt, who had to finance the structure (initially projected at a cost of two million marks), were rather skeptical in the beginning.

Alluding to the inscription on the frieze"Dem Wahren, Schà¶nen, Guten", ("To the true, the beautiful, the good")Frankfurt poet Adolf Stoltze rhymed in his best Hessian dialect:Dem Wahre, Scheene, Gute, die Berjerschaft muàŸ blute. (To the true, the beautiful, the good the citizenry must give its blood.) The Alte Oper was almost completely destroyed by World War II bombing in 1944 (except parts of the faà§ades), and in the 1960s the city magistrate planned to build a modern office building in place of the ruin.

Later, Arndt denied having meant this seriously.A citizen's initiative campaigned for reconstruction funds after 1953 and collected 15 million DM.

It was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae and financed by the citizens of Frankfurt.

Many important works have been premiered at the Alte Oper, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937.The building was inaugurated on October 20, 1880.

A live recording of that concert, conducted by Michael Gielen, is available on CD.Today, the Alte Oper consists of: The GroàŸer Saal (Large Hall) which has seating for an audience of 2,500. The Mozart-Saal with 700 seats. Smaller halls used for conventions.Because the new Frankfurt Opera House had already been built in 1951, the rebuilt Alte Oper was designed for use as a concert hall from the beginning of its reconstruction.

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