The Romanian Athenaeum
Domed neoclassical concert hall raised on old circus foundations and funded by one-leu public donations.
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This audio guide to the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest follows the diplomat Constantin Esarcu and his campaign to build a home for the arts with money from ordinary people. It begins at a ball in the National Theatre, on a November night in the eighteen-eighties, as a lottery is about to be drawn. Along the way you'll meet a bankrupt riding society and the French architect Albert Galleron. Best heard standing in front of the dome.
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