Buried alive? The new Burgtheater on Vienna’s Ringstrasse

‘Franzens-Ring: view facing the city with the Court Theatre’

 

View over the Burgtheater towards St Stephen’s Cathedral, photograph

 

Bird’s-eye view of the Burgtheater

 

Playbill advertising the opening performance at the Burgtheater: *Wallensteins Lager*, 14 October 1888

 

Burgtheater: Kaiserstiege (‘Emperor’s Staircase’)

 

Gustav Klimt: Altar of Dionysus, 1886–1888, tympanum, south staircase

 

Gustav Klimt: The theatre at Taormina, 1886–1888, main ceiling panel in the north staircase of the Vienna Burgtheater