House for Mozart
Former stables turned opera house, renamed for Mozart's 250th birthday in 2006.
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This guide to the House for Mozart in Salzburg traces a hall that changed shape and name again and again without Mozart ever setting foot in it. It starts with Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich's stone stables of sixteen oh seven, follows the architect who carved a theatre out of the stalls in nineteen twenty-five, and the renovations, name changes, and even a hundred-eighty-degree rotation of the auditorium that followed through war and peace. Along the way it was renamed the Kleines Festspielhaus and reopened with a production of The Marriage of Figaro. Look for the golden foyer wall added long after Mozart's lifetime.
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