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houses and mansions, and also to the woods and
rocks: we forget that we are in the midst of the
city.
It is the bridge here that unites Stockholm
with Nordmalen, where the greatest part of the
fashionable world live, in two long Berlin-like
streets; yet amongst all the great houses we will
only visit one, and that is the theatre.
We will go on the stage itself – it has an
historical signification. Here, by the third
side-scene from the stage-lights, to the right, as we
look down towards the audience, Gustavus the
Third was assassinated at a masquerade; and he
was borne into that little chamber there, close
by the scene, whilst all the outlets were closed,
and the motley group of harlequins, polichinellos,
wild men, gods and goddesses with
unmasked faces, pale and terrified crept together;
the dancing ballet-farce had become a
real tragedy.
This theatre is Jenny Lind’s childhood’s
home. Here she has sung in the choruses when
a little girl; here she first made her
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