Roncalli's Apollo Variety Theatre
Glass-cube variety theatre beneath a Rhine bridge, staging acrobatics, comedy and dinner shows.
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This guide to Roncalli's Apollo Variety Theatre in Düsseldorf starts with the concrete underside of a Rhine bridge and the glass box sheltering beneath it. It reaches back to a neo-baroque palace of spectacle on the Königsallee that opened in eighteen ninety-nine, with a stage built for circus, operetta and a floodable water basin. Best heard standing outside the glass, looking up at the bridge.
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