Cottbus holds an unexpected gem.
The Cottbus Theatre. Das Staatstheater Cottbus.
We renamed it the Mastodont and when you see pics of it you'll know why.
The building is huge, the building is massive and the building is inside and out Jugendstil - Art nouveau. It's more than a 100 years old, one of the few remaining Jugendstil theatres in Germany.
The Germans are equally enthralled:
'Eine architektonische Skulptur. Ein Tempel der Kunst, umrahmt von Grünanlagen und Brunnen. Ist das Jugendstil? Ist das Eklektizismus? In jedem Fall ist es genial'.
Flabbergasted is the right word to describe the feeling when you see it, and not just the first time!
We fell in love with the theatre the moment we saw it. And we went back to visit it, when they performed a wonderful Don Giovanni. The best we saw yet, actually.
We kept checking their agenda, and last year we found a must go concert to be performed a couple of months later - which we immediately booked.
See here a couple of Cottbus photos and the Mastodont.
We've only got one picture of the theatre - it does give a pretty adequate idea but check out Internet for more: the building is absolutely worth it.
The must go concert very much deserves its own blog, so you have to wait a little longer for that story...
The Cottbus Theatre. Das Staatstheater Cottbus.
We renamed it the Mastodont and when you see pics of it you'll know why.
The building is huge, the building is massive and the building is inside and out Jugendstil - Art nouveau. It's more than a 100 years old, one of the few remaining Jugendstil theatres in Germany.
The Germans are equally enthralled:
'Eine architektonische Skulptur. Ein Tempel der Kunst, umrahmt von Grünanlagen und Brunnen. Ist das Jugendstil? Ist das Eklektizismus? In jedem Fall ist es genial'.
Flabbergasted is the right word to describe the feeling when you see it, and not just the first time!
We fell in love with the theatre the moment we saw it. And we went back to visit it, when they performed a wonderful Don Giovanni. The best we saw yet, actually.
We kept checking their agenda, and last year we found a must go concert to be performed a couple of months later - which we immediately booked.
See here a couple of Cottbus photos and the Mastodont.
We've only got one picture of the theatre - it does give a pretty adequate idea but check out Internet for more: the building is absolutely worth it.
The must go concert very much deserves its own blog, so you have to wait a little longer for that story...
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