{"id":628708,"date":"2026-06-09T05:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:50:28","slug":"germans-scrap-new-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628708\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans scrap new opera house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>June 07, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of D\u00fcsseldorf has torn up years of planning with a decision that the city cannot afford a new opera house.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The news came as a complete surprise to us today,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.wdr.de\/nrw\/duesseldorf\/duesseldorfer-oper-soll-nicht-neu-gebaut-werden-100.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said <\/a>Deutsche Oper am Rhein chief Alexandra Stampler-Brown. \u2018I and many of my colleagues are still in a state of shock.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The new building was budgeted at 470 million Euros, but that looks like a considerable underestimate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We assume that the Opera am Rhein will continue to have a home here,\u2019 said the mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht June 07, 2026 The mayor of D\u00fcsseldorf has torn up years of planning with a decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}