![]() ![]() ![]() They were created by Ernst Julius Hähnel, and represent Erato’s two winged horses that are led by “Harmony and the Muse of Poetry”. The statues of the two riders on horseback were placed on the main facade of the loggia in 1876. Looking at the front of the building from the Ring Road, one can see the original structure that has been preserved since 1869. Under the direction of Karl Böhm, Beethoven’s Fidelio was brilliantly performed, and the opening ceremonies were broadcast by Austrian television. On November 5, 1955, the Vienna State Opera reopened with a new auditorium and modernized technology. The Secretary of State for Public Works, Julius Raab, announced on May 24, 1945, that reconstruction of the Vienna State Opera would begin immediately. The stage and the auditorium, however, were completely destroyed. Only the front section and the main stairways remained intact. In the last year of World War II, the Vienna State Opera was nearly destroyed during an allied bombing raid intended for another target. On May 25, 1869, the opera house solemnly opened with Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. It was built by the renowned Czech architect and contractor Josef Hlávka.īuilt in a grandiose Neo-Renaissance style to reflect the origins of its art, construction began in 1861 and finished in 1869. The structure of the opera house was planned by the Viennese architect August Sicard von Sicardsburg, while the inside was designed by interior decorator Eduard van der Nüll. ![]()
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