Grand Theater
Ornate 1859 playhouse with a gilded three-balcony salon, painted ceilings and a vast chandelier.
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This guide to Stora Teatern in Gothenburg centres on a banker named Axel Fromell and a few days in March nineteen seventeen, when the city's grand old playhouse was up for sale. It reaches back to the theatre's costly birth in eighteen fifty-nine and to Albert Ranft, the actor-turned-impresario Swedes called the theatre king. Best heard standing in Kungsparken, facing the pale stone front.
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