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Opera House - Vienna - Austria
August von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der N?ll built the Court Opera House from 1861 to 1869. The initial reception of their architectural concept was so negative that van der N?ll took his own life; Sicardsburg also died two months later. After its near-total destruction at the end of World War II in 1945, the state opera was rebuilt according to original plans and re-opened in 1955. The Vienna State Opera, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the pit, is ranked as one of the leading houses of the world. A listing of some of its directors is dazzling: Gustav Mahler (1897-1907), Richard Strauss (1919-1924), Clemens Krauss (1929-1934), Karl B÷hm (1954-1956), Herbert von Karajan (1956-1964), Lorin Maazel (1982-84) and Claudio Abbado (1986-1991).
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