Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

The Franconia Theater Würzburg is a venue and the largest theater of Würzburg and Lower Franconia.

In addition to the big house with 739 seats, the theater is home to a small venue, the board games that provide 92 spectators. Since the season 2004/2005 Hermann Schneider passes as the director 's artistic fortunes of the house.

History

The Würzburg theater was founded by Julius Graf Soden and on August 3, 1804 with the drama " Still waters run deep " opened. It was played in the old " noble ladies of St. Anne ", which had been converted into a theater. In the season 1833/34 was, for example, the twenty year-old Richard Wagner as " Choreinstudierer " and " Head of Pantomieme " at the house. His great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner was in 2002 with the production of " The Flying Dutchman " her debut as an opera director. Special highlights in the history of the theater were a guest of the composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, as well as the performance of Richard Strauss, who conducted his opera 1926 " Ariadne auf Naxos " in Franconia Theatre. From 1988 to 1999 Tebbe Harms Kleen led the fate of the Würzburg theater.

On March 16, 1945, the theater was completely destroyed in a major air attack by British bombers on March 16, 1945. 1966, the new building of the Würzburg city theater was opened on the former Würzburg's train station.