Semperoper Dresden
Neo-Renaissance opera house on the Elbe, crowned by a panther quadriga carrying Dionysus.
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This guide to the Semperoper in Dresden follows Gottfried Semper, the architect who gave the city its first opera house on Theaterplatz, into the street fighting of May 1849. It traces his years as a wanted man in Zurich and London, his friendship with Richard Wagner, and the role his son Manfred came to play. Stand on Theaterplatz facing the main portal, where the panther chariot rides above the entrance.
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