Description: The Italian Opera House of Berlin, in the early part of the reign of Frederick the Great, was at that time one of the most beautiful in Europe. The admission was gratuitous. Nevertheless, tickets of admission were neces-sary, since every box had its fixed destination: one being set apart for the princes and princesses of the royal family, another for the corps diplomatique, a third for illustrious travelers, this one for the academy, that for the generals; in short, nothing was to be seen but the king's family, the king's household, the king's dependents, the king's protégés, a circumstance of which none had the right to complain, since the theater and the actors were the king's. There remained for the good citizens of the town of Berlin only a small portion of the pit, for the greater part was occupied by the military, each regiment having the right to send a certain number of men. Instead, there-fore, of an audience of intelligent, joyous, and excitable Parisians, the artists had before their eyes a pit full of six-feet heroes, as Voltaire called them, smelling strongly of tobacco and brandy, understanding nothing, staring with their eyes wide open, not daring either to applaud or to hiss, out of respect to standing orders. The occupants of the two rows of boxes behind these gentlemen could neither see nor hear anything; but for form's sake, they were obliged to attend regularly at the spectacle which his.... (from 1st page of chapter 1)
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