TIME FOR SOME HAUSMUSIK
When Wilhelm Holzbauer and Hermann & Valentiny took to the stage in Salzburg, it was to redesign the Festival theater known as the Haus für Mozart (House for Mozart).
A long, sober facade masks a unique 1,571-seat opera house, finely crafted to appreciate the works of the great composer during the Austrian city's annual festival.
SALZBURG IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The theater was constructed within the walls of some former baroque horse stables in 1925. The original inspiration? Nothing less than the prestigious Vienna State Opera.
At first an intimate setting, the theater was enlarged in the 1930s, before being totally redesigned by our architects in the year 2000.
The auditorium was shortened, widened and lowered, then given two levels of balconies on either side. Here, the architecture was designed to serve the fourth art: music. Each refurbishment and each part of the new layout were carefully thought out, so that from pianissimo of notes. every seat, each theater-goer can hear even the most The foyer was adorned with a vast gilded wall in 1939, which was eventually given windows to allow in the bright lights from the city outside.
DELABIE products installed:
TEMPOMATIC 4 electronic basin tap - reference 44000615
PREMIX NANO thermostatic mixing valve - reference 732116
Wall-mounted stainless steel bin with cover - reference 465S
Wall-mounted stainless steel toilet brush set with lid - reference 4051S
Photo credit: Salzburger Festspiele, Andreas Kolarik
