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...sentimental pride Münchners have always taken in their opera house stiffened Opera Director Rudolf Hartmann's determination that it be rebuilt in conformity with its original style. Anticipating the likelihood of war damage, Munich had carefully disassembled the gold and white interior decorations of its Cuvilliés Theater before the bombs fell, so that when it was rebuilt in 1958, all its ornaments and trappings were intact. But inside its shell, the Nationaltheater was a chaos of terra-cotta rubble where grass and trees had begun to sprout...
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