5 Best Performing Arts in Bonn, The Rhineland

Concerts are held at numerous indoor and outdoor venues during September's monthlong Beethoven-Festival.

In the Beethoven-Haus, recitals are sometimes given on a 19th-century grand piano, and concerts take place regularly in the chamber music hall.

This is a major venue for comedy and cabaret.

Chamber-music concerts are given regularly at the Schumannhaus, where composer Robert Schumann spent his final years.

Operas are staged regularly at the Theater Bonn, which also hosts musicals and performances by world-renowned dance companies, including ballet.