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Oestrich-Winkel (dpa) - The Rheingau Music Festival (RMF) wants to build one of the largest mobile concert halls in Europe in Corona summer 2021 and also use a football stadium for the first time.
This should ensure the necessary minimum distances between the spectators.
Despite all the imponderables due to the pandemic, the festival, founded in 1987, is planning a record number of concerts this summer, according to its spokeswoman Sabine Siemon: Including repetitions of musical performances with a reduced number of listeners on the same day, it should be 208.
125,000 cards are offered.
According to Siemons, a little more than half of them have been sold so far.
Some concerts are already sold out.
In view of Corona, this is a very good start.
The mobile concert hall is to be built on the grounds of Johannisberg Castle above Geisenheim am Rhein for several hundred thousand euros.
A maximum of around 580 listeners should be distributed in pairs in a checkerboard pattern on a larger number of chairs.
After the pandemic, according to Siemon, even 1200 listeners could sit here with less spacing.
The hall previously used by the RMF in Schloss Johannisberg, on the other hand, only has around 500 densely packed seats.
The mobile “Fürst von Metternich concert cube” made of wood, glass and metal should be 20 meters wide, 45 meters long and 8 meters high.
According to the planning, there is a stage platform, slightly rising audience seats and a ventilation system.
A ceiling sail and scale-like walls should ensure a good sound of chamber music.
The festival's technology partner, Matthias Becker, speaks of a “certain living room atmosphere” without echoes and overlays.
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In the Brita-Arena in Wiesbaden, a maximum of around 2500 listeners should be able to sit in around 250 beach chairs and on the grandstand at open-air concerts.
Artists like Till Brönner and Max Giesinger as well as the band Smokie have made their way to the football stadium.
As in the past, there are also numerous other venues such as churches, wineries and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden at the RMF.
After the corona-related cancellation last year, this year's 34th festival season should take place from June 26th to September 5th.
“Artist in Residence” is the pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) are expected at the long-sold-out opening with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra on June 26th in the Eberbach Monastery near Eltville.
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