The Spiegeltent, Melbourne

The Famous Spiegel Season is presented by Arts Centre Melbourne, the largest performing arts centre in Australia attracting more than 2.7 million visitors each year, and is situated in the heart of Melbourne’s cultural precinct. The most beautiful of the last remaining Belgian Spiegeltents, The Famous Spiegeltent, was built in 1920 by master craftsmen Oscar Mols Dom and Loius Goor. This Grande Dame has spent her lifetime at the bequest of festivals and fairgrounds throughout Europe and beyond, playing host to the world’s greatest cabaret artists, musicians and circus burlesque performers.