Munich has a great deal to
offer musically, whether
you're into classical concerts
or more modern fare. There's
everything you'd expect to
find in a cosmopolitan
capital, and during the summer
a glut of open-air music
festivals takes place in or
around the city. Several
orchestras of international
repute are based here, and the
annual opera festival in July
ranks with the Salzburg and
Bayreuth festivals. Not that
it's all highbrow: there's
plenty of trash and tinsel as
well, though perhaps the bars
are more interesting than the
discos. The various
listings
magazines are good sources of
information on what's on.
Nightclubs, discos and live
pop music
Munich has a thriving
nightclub and disco scene,
though in this city where
money and appearances are
everything, the snooty
attitudes of many clubs can be
rather off-putting. Most
places are open 10pm-4am and
entrance is about...
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Jazz
Munich has a monthly jazz
magazine called Münchener
Jazz-Zeitung , available in
music shops and jazz venues.
The city is corporate
headquarters of the
avant-garde jazz record label
ECM, and club dates are
accordingly more exciting...
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Folk
music
Predictably, the Munich folk
scene is dominated by
Germany's two favourite
foreign imports - Irish and
Country and Western.
Max-Emanuel-Brauerei ,
Adalbertstr. 33, Schwabing.
For much of the time this is a
normal Gaststätte, but it has
tango...
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Classical music
A number of resident
orchestras and two opera
houses cater to a very spoilt
audience. The local radio
orchestra, the
Bayerisches-Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester,
is conducted by the American
Lorin Maazel, who was lured
here by what was...
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Theater
Munich has a host of theatres
and cabaret venues, all of
which are listed in the
official programmes and the
local press. Almost all
productions are exclusively in
German. Cirkus-Krone-Bau ,
Marsstr. 43 (tel 0 89/55 81
66). Germany's only...
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