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The Staatsoper interval halls frame the main stairwell with an 120 meter long necklace of adjoining rooms. Right of the stairwell is the room known as the Gustav Mahler Hall, which was called the Gobelin Hall until May 1997 because the walls were decorated with Gobelin tapestries designed by Rudolf Eisenmenger showing motifs from Mozart’s MAGIC FLUTE. Twenty employees from the now defunct Vienna Gobelin tapestry manufacturer worked for six years to make the tapestries with their 13,000 colour nuances. Until 1944 the Director’s offices were lodged in this room and all of the Directors from Dingelstedt to Karl Böhm had their office here. 100 years after Gustav Mahler’s conducting debut at the court opera (11 May 1897), which was followed shortly after by his time as General Director, this room was re-named after him. A portrait of the artist by R.B. Kitaj, which hung in Mahler’s office, now marks the place where his office was once found.
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