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By ANDREW POWELL MUNICH \u2014 Bayreuth\u2019s Rococo gem of a theater, the Markgr\u00e4fliches Opernhaus<\/a>, will reopen April 12 after a five-year, \u20ac32-million restoration. On the bill, fittingly: Hasse\u2019s Artaserse<\/em> (1730), as mounted by the Theater-Akademie August Everding<\/a>.<\/p>\n Like virtually every public project in Germany these days, the effort took longer than expected and went over budget. Little or no funding came as a result of the building\u2019s 2012 inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage \u201cproperty\u201d just before work began, leaving Bavarian taxpayers to foot essentially the whole tab.<\/p>\n Carlo Galli Bibiena<\/a> created his sumptuous interior entirely in wood, with canvas, under the remote eye of his famous father Giuseppe. It sits within an urbane masonry shell by architect Joseph Saint-Pierre<\/a>, all on orders from Wilhelmine of Prussia<\/a>. The doors first opened in 1748 for stagings of Jommelli\u2019s Ezio<\/em> and the Hasse opera. Two years later, Saint-Pierre finished his fa\u00e7ade<\/em>.<\/p>\n The restorers progressed meticulously, from the ceiling down through the loges. Their mantra: \u201cas bright and colorful as [when new].\u201d Stage and proscenium have been remade in their 18th-century form, reversing Nazi-era structural changes. 4,500 bricks have been replaced.<\/p>\n Michael Hofstetter<\/a> will conduct Artaserse<\/em>, which transfers in May to the Theater-Akademie\u2019s home here. Next Thursday\u2019s premiere and attendant festivities will video-stream starting at 12:30 p.m. EDT at www.br.de [slash] franken. A tight-squeeze matinee concert May 1 by the Berlin Philharmonic<\/a>, paying tribute to the Wagner town with the Wesendonck-Lieder<\/em>, plus Beethoven, will likewise show online: 5 a.m. EDT at www.br-klassik.de [slash] concert.<\/p>\n Photo \u00a9 Bayerische Schl\u00f6sserverwaltung<\/p>\n Related posts:
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