Bucharest National Opera House
Riverside opera and ballet theatre with an arched porch, muse statues and a hundred-bulb chandelier.
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This guide to the National Opera House in Bucharest starts not with an aria but with a football club, Venus Bucharest, and the lawyer who sold his own forest to give it a ground by the Dâmbovița river. It moves through the interwar cup finals, the arrival of communist rule, and the summer of nineteen fifty-three, when the city filled with young visitors from across the world. Best heard from the edge of the little park beside the building, facing the arched porch.
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