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The Vienna Opera opens its doors for the visitors
The Vienna State Opera welcomes up to 280,000 guests interested in art and culture on Guided Tours through the house in the course of a season, press-office of the Opera reports. As these guided tours are currently not possible due to the current decree of the federal government, art and architecture exhibition was designed in the form of a tour. Here, the visitors are guided through the historic rooms of the building along a clearly recognizable path as well as by means of information panels. QR codes with further information, photos, videos as well as audio files complete the offer.
Visitors can tour the vestibule, the entrance area of the opera house, the Grand Staircase, the Tea Salon, Gustav Mahler Hall, Marble Hall, Schwindfoyer and Loggia as well as the imperial Middle Box with a view into the auditorium and onto the stage.
The tour ends in the newly opened opera foyer, which is also architecturally very interesting and houses a store as well as the ticket office. Visitors learn details about the history of the building, its construction in the spirit of Ringstrasse-era historicism, its destruction during World War II, and its reconstruction and reopening in the 1950s.
Each of the totals of 17 stations is equipped with information panels (German and English). A QR code links to the website of the Vienna State Opera, where comprehensive and in-depth information, as well as multimedia material, can be accessed.
Photo by Axel Zeininger
Visitors can tour the vestibule, the entrance area of the opera house, the Grand Staircase, the Tea Salon, Gustav Mahler Hall, Marble Hall, Schwindfoyer and Loggia as well as the imperial Middle Box with a view into the auditorium and onto the stage.
The tour ends in the newly opened opera foyer, which is also architecturally very interesting and houses a store as well as the ticket office. Visitors learn details about the history of the building, its construction in the spirit of Ringstrasse-era historicism, its destruction during World War II, and its reconstruction and reopening in the 1950s.
Each of the totals of 17 stations is equipped with information panels (German and English). A QR code links to the website of the Vienna State Opera, where comprehensive and in-depth information, as well as multimedia material, can be accessed.
Photo by Axel Zeininger
