Vienna opera blames Euro 2008 for poor attendance
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Vienna opera blames Euro 2008 for poor attendance by grenz June 18th, 2008 @ 5:52 PM Art & Culture, Sports Soccer games — namely Euro 2008 matches — are getting in the way of opera performances, the Vienna State Opera charged on Tuesday. The venerable opera house saw its attendance numbers drop to the season’s lowest level on Monday, the same day Austria took on Germany in the city’s Ernst Happel stadium, the Staatsoper said in a statement. The reason was not that opera fans eschewed Ver
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