SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana
Neo-Renaissance opera house with Ionic columns, allegorical statues and a busy opera and ballet season.
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This guide to the SNG Opera and Ballet house in Ljubljana goes back to the city's older theatre, where German box owners held the purse strings and Slovene actors played to half-empty houses. It follows the actor Anton Cerar, known as Danilo, on a February night in eighteen eighty-seven when he stayed behind after a German operetta. Best heard standing in front of the columned facade.
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