Trip day 3 and on

Our new hotel, Voco Vienna Prater Hotel, in Vienna was very nice as well. 

Our day today; 

Walk to subway, subway to train station, find the right track, then the right car, then the right seats. Then a 2 hour train ride to Vienna. Find the right subway, take the subway and we got off on the wrong stop. Back on subway for five more stops then walked to the hotel. Dropped our bags and back to the subway to the stop where we stopped last time where the Vienna Opera House is! The Opera House is huge, huge, huge! Their stage is 60 feet wide, 30 feet high and 150 feet back. In addition it goes 60 feet down and is even larger underground where they store all the backdrops, ready to come up at a moment’s notice. It only takes one minute to select a backdrop, have the computer open the stage and bring the selected background up then close the stage back. All of the lights are controlled by the computers and can aim and change colors. They do not have to climb ladders and make changes! The music and video all run through computers. They have 1000 people working there 18 hours a day in two shifts 7 days a week ten months a year. They build their own sets, props and costumes and have many offsite storage buildings. It was damaged by a bomb during WWII but the front was not damaged and survived, the whole rear was destroyed however.
Back to the hotel and dinner in a nice hideaway (quite expensive though). Now back in the hotel for the night.
The Vienna State Opera is now one of the highlights of our trips.