Stadttheater Passau
Called The Theatre Opera House in the Prince Bishop of Passau, mostly just Stadttheater Passau, Passau is a theater with 350 seats. It is used for opera, operetta, musical, concert and drama. It is the seat of the musical theater department and permanent venue of the State Theatre of Lower Bavaria.
Formation
In 1645 the Prince-Bishop of Passau, Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, built on the banks of the Inn a ballroom. As the Jeu de Paume, but lost to the mid-18th century, its popularity, walked Prince Bishop Cardinal Leopold Ernst Graf von Firmian the house from 1771 to 1774 by its music director to one of the courtiers reserved Hofkomödien and Hofopernhaus to.
1783-1786 was Prince-Bishop Joseph Cardinal Graf von Auersperg the building fundamentally change and made it as Prince Bishop's opera house accessible to the people. The Prince Bishop's court architect Johann Georg von Hagenauer began zweirangiges lodge house with a royal box in the rectangular enclosure of the former dance hall. The paintings on balustrades and galleries created Franz Pecka. They show hunting, sheep and gardening scenes and symbols for the different types of music. The illusion painting on the ceiling represents a blue sky with clouds
Built at the same time Redoute buildings, also from Hagenauer, decorated with a classical façade with low relief. Upstairs is a large ball room.
On November 1, 1783 Fürstbischöfliche Opera House was opened by Anton Schweitzer 's Alceste with the opera. It was one of the first German Residenz Theater, which was open to paying subjects.
Further development
Through the secularization in 1803, the previous Fürstbischöfliche opera house passed into the possession of the Elector of Bavaria, and was then renamed Churchill Princely theater. From 1806, after the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria, it was called the Royal Bavarian theater.
In 1882, threatened due to fire police defect closure, as the State Department approved no funds. But on September 8, 1883, the city decided Passau to buy the building and rebuild. The opening of the Passau municipal theater took place on 28 October 1883.
1893 to 1895 there were in the spirit of historicism under theater director Ludwig August Wesselsky to structural changes. Since the twenties until 1945, the theater was used as a cinema.
After the Second World War it was given the name of Passau chamber Games by director Peter Hausser. As early as 1950 but it had to be closed again due to financial difficulties. On October 4, 1952, was constituted on the Association Niederbayerisches Städtebundtheater, the first composed of the towns of Landshut, Passau and Straubing. The musical department was assigned Passau spoken theater Landshut. Later, other cities joined.
Presence
The structural changes of the 19th century eliminated again in the course of restoration of 1959 until 1966. November 11, 1961, came to the reopening as Prince Bishop's opera Il matrimonio segreto house with Cimarosa.
From 1970 until his death on February 17, 1996 coined director Klaus Schlette the game operation. 1988-1991 was another renovation. Among other things, a new Prospektzuganlage, a retractable orchestra pit and a large freight elevator was created. After Schlettes death of John Meier was riding his successor, since 2002 derives director Stefan Tilch the theater. By the June floods in 2013, the theater was damaged by a massive flooding of the stalls of the auditorium and the orchestra pit, but the game could start as early as September with a provisional seating again.
As part of the State Theatre of Lower Bavaria City Theatre Passau is where the musical department with its own opera company, including soloists, chorus and orchestra. The Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre, the Lower Bavarian Philharmonic under the baton of music director Basil Coleman HE.
- Stage and auditorium