Stadeum

Stade, the old Hanseatic port on the Lower Elbe, keeps its cultural and conference life under a single roof. The Stadeum combines theatre, concert hall and congress centre in one municipal building, its season running to well over a hundred events — classical concerts, drama for adults and for children, dance, cabaret, musicals and readings — while the same rooms serve meetings and trade gatherings by day. For the district around Stade it is the principal touring stop, the address at which a visiting opera or orchestral programme, Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro" overture among the music heard there, is likely to be given.