Musiktheater Füssen
The Music Hall is located on the shores of Forggensee in Fussen. From the terrace of the theater can be seen on the other side of the lake Neuschwanstein Castle.
Productions
Ludwig II - Longing for Paradise
The house was the theater of Neuschwanstein Josephine Barbarino designed as a musical and built between 1998 and 2000. On April 7, 2000 with the world premiere of the acclaimed musicals Ludwig II - Longing for Paradise by Franz Hummel (Music ), Stephan Barbarino ( written and directed ) and Heinz Hauser (stage ) opened the theater.
The idea for a musical about Ludwig II, King of Bavaria has its own theater at the original scene had Barbarino pursued since the mid-nineties, by 1994/95 together with the Mannheim general manager Ulrich Schwab under the name Dream King, and from 1996 until the end of Premiere 2000 together with cultural manager Felix Maria Roehl. With his role as Director of the Ludwig Musical AG & Co. KG, the project has to Ludwig II - can be realized longing for paradise in a purpose-built Neuschwanstein Musical Theater. Barbarino had still held the directorship and artistic director until the musical about King Ludwig had to be stopped from opaque economic reasons on 31 December 2003, although by then, 1.5 million people had visited the 1,506 ideas about what an average occupancy rate of approximately 75 %, respectively.
Ludwig ² - The legend lives
On 11 March 2005, in the renamed Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein Theater in 2004 a second, completely newly created musical about King Ludwig under the title Ludwig ² - The legend lives premiered. The music composed Konstantin Wecker, Christopher Franke and Nic Raine, the texts were written by Rolf Rettberg, the production headed Gerd Fischer. In the first game year around 200,000 visitors have attended the performances. On 1 March 2007, the shareholders decided, in view of the chronic low utilization and the lack of economic prospects set the game mode.
The Opera Today
Since early summer 2007, the theater under the name Music Hall, and Festspielhaus Füssen is once again open to visitors. That house has since been rented provide examples theater for commercial broadcasters. 2012 and 2013 took place at the Festival Hall in honor of the birthday of Ludwig II held each a " king Gala".
Architecture
The building comprises a main part, are housed in the auditorium, stage, rehearsal stage, dressing rooms, workshops and offices, as well as two side wings that are connected symmetrically to the main part and foyers, catering ( coffee, beer industry and beer garden, restaurant and Germany's longest bar with 22 meters) halls and a theater shop included. The building is 160 meters long, 80 meters deep and 32 meters high at its greatest extents including the side wing.
Noteworthy is the location of the Festspielhaus: it was built on a specially piled up, almost 50,000 m² of lakeside property on Forggensee. The shoreline was designed parallel to the building and created between the building and the shore a pseudo baroque garden, its symmetrical design enhances the axial orientation of the building exactly to the almost 4,000 meters located castle Neuschwanstein. In the summer months, the Festspielhaus is with the Forggenseeschiffahrt who has set up a new dock, accessible.
The auditorium, designed by Josephine Barbarino Festspielhaus is based on the designed by Gottfried Semper and first used by Richard Wagner at the Festspielhaus Bayreuth Festival form of "democratic auditorium ," meaning there are no lodges, but amphitheater rising rows of seats of each course offer from good visibility to the stage and therefore the possibility of full concentration on the action on stage.