Paul Sixt was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD). He had been co-responsible for the exhibition Degenerate music in Düsseldorf in 1938. Landestheater Detmold Orchestra The Fürstlich-Lippische-Hofkapelle, founded in 1834, is considered the predecessor of the orchestra of the Landestheater. The Detmold palace was the residence of the Principality of Lippe. Renowned composers such as Lortzing and Johannes Brahms worked in Detmold. After World War II, the music ensemble took on the duties of a theatre orchestra for the Landestheater Detmold, focusing on opera, operetta, musical and ballet. The program included demanding productions as Handel's Alcina and Purcell's King Arthur. In addition, there were operas by Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, as well as operas by contemporary composers Giselher Klebe, Hans Werner Henze and Udo Zimmermann. Operettas were given composed by Franz Lehár, Johann Strauss and Karl Millöcker, and also, increasingly, musicals. Productions of Wagner's stage works began with Tannhäuser in 1952, followed by Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1953, Der fliegende Holländer in 1954, Lohengrin in 1955, Parsifal in 1957 and Die Walküre in 1958. In the 2001/02 season, part of the productions moved into the symphonic area under the leadership of GMD Erich Wächter. Additionally, the orchestra participated in festivals and major choral concerts, proving its versatility. A new series of stagings of Wagner's works began in the same season with Lohengrin, followed by productions of Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Der fliegende Holländer. Current operation The Landestheater Detmold has five venues at its home in Detmold: the Landestheater itself with 650 seats, the Kleine Bühne in the with 80 seats, the Hoftheater in the courtyard with 250 seats, the Detmolder Sommertheater with 350 seats, and since March 2009 the newest stage KASCHLUPP!, the children's and youth stage. Today, the Landestheater Detmold presents itself as the largest traveling company in Europe. Half of the nearly 300 performances in a season are held outside of Detmold. Thus, the Landestheater fulfills its cultural mandate to provide towns without their own ensemble with theatre culture. It is one of five Landesbühnen (state theatres) in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the only one with both a musical theatre and a dance ensemble. It covers the area of the entire state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and beyond to Belgium, Luxembourg, and more recently even to Switzerland. The Landestheater Detmold provides its operation as a three-division theatre with opera, ballet and plays.