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festspiele. Performances are at the Nationaltheater in the Residenz and often sell out. The
opera's house band is the
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
, in business since 1523 and thus
Munich's oldest orchestra. It's currently under the capable helm of Kent Nagano, who oc-
casionally shakes up the tried-and-true repertory with contemporary and avant-garde
works.
BR-Symphonieorchester
Charismatic Lithuanian maestro Mariss Jansons has rejuvenated this orchestra's playlist
and often performs with its choir at such venues as the Gasteig and the Prinzregen-
tentheater.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
( 2185 1960;
www.gaertnerplatztheater.de
; Gärtnerplatz 3; Reichenbachplatz)
The
light opera and musicals normally performed at this 19th-century theatre will be farmed
out to other stages between 2012 and 2015 while the building is spruced up for its 150th
birthday .
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Theatre & Performing Arts
Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel
( 218 501)
This leading ensemble has a bit of a conservative streak but still manages to
find relevance for today's mad mad world in works by Shakespeare, Schiller and other
tried-and-true playwrights. Performances are in the
Residenztheater
Offline map
(Marstallplatz 4)
and the now fully renovated Cuvilliés-Theater (
Click here
)
.
THEATRE COMPANY
Münchener Kammerspiele
( 2339 6600;
www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de
; Maximilianstrasse 26; Kammer-
spiele)
This stage has an edgy, populist bent and delivers provocative interpretations of
the classics as well as works by contemporary playwrights. Performances are held in a
beautifully refurbished art-nouveau theatre at Maximilianstrasse and in the Neues Haus, a
new glass cube at Falckenbergstrasse 1.
THEATRE
