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Credit: Massimo Catarinella
The facade of the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam. It opened on 11 April 1888, with an inaugural concert in which an orchestra of 120 musicians and a chorus of 500 singers performed works by Wagner, Handel, Bach, and Beethoven. The hall now hosts 800 performances every year, including concert performances of opera. Its resident orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, also serves as one of the orchestras for The Netherlands Opera.