An Audience Comes Out of Lockdown for Schubert and Mahler
Observing social distancing, a German theater cautiously restarted live concerts: For a concert on Monday featuring the bass Gunther Groissböck, the State Theater of Hesse in Wiesbaden, Germany, which normally seats 1,000, held fewer than 200 audience members.
By Jack Ewing, Published May 19, 2020, WIESBADEN, Germany — Normally, when a performer peers beyond bright stage lights into a darkened theater and sees every fourth seat occupied, it’s not a good sign.