Standing-room evening at the State Opera
The Vienna State Opera keeps 435 places in the house where nobody sits down, and they are the reason a student in Vienna can see world-class opera more often than most people see a film.
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The Vienna State Opera keeps 435 places in the house where nobody sits down, and they are the reason a student in Vienna can see world-class opera more often than most people see a film.
Vienna demolished its city walls and built a 5.3 km boulevard on the empty ring of ground, then lined it with every public building the nineteenth century thought a capital needed.
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