Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein
Lakeside musical theatre facing a royal castle, with a huge revolving stage and a water basin.
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This guide to the Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein in Füssen starts with a piece of stage machinery built for a single scene, and follows it back to King Ludwig the Second of Bavaria and a June evening in eighteen eighty-six. Along the way it touches his debts, his castles and his devotion to Richard Wagner. Best heard on the terrace, facing the towers across the Forggensee.
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