The myriad delights which accompany the arrival of summer in Berlin -warm evenings, fresh strawberries, long twilight- will always be offset by the melancholy realisation that the various opera and orchestra seasons have at last come to an end. The night watchman has locked the doors to the Schillertheater, large moth-resistant tarps have been drawn across the stages of the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus, and summer construction along Bismarckstraße has rendered the Deutsche Oper building inaccessible to visitors. For all of us who won’t be making it to Salzburg or Bayreuth or Munich this summer, strawberries and long evenings are just about the only thing we have in the way of consolation for the quiet months ahead. If there is a single event that mingles those joyful sensations of midsummer with a decisive sense of finale, it would…
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