Theater St. Gallen
The Theater St. Gallen ( formerly Stadttheater St. Gallen) is a multi- genre theater, opera, operetta, musicals, plays, children's theater and dance in St. Gallen. It is considered the oldest professional theater in Switzerland.
History
The first amateur theater St. Gallen originated in the Middle Ages around the year 900; driving forces were the monks Tutilo and Notker Balbulus. Because the dominant church in the monastery town faced the theater adverse, not a theater business could gain a foothold until the beginning of the 19th century. The theater group " German Löhlein'sche theater associates " applied in the spring of 1801 at the city authority in vain permission to play. Her stage play, The noble lie of August von Kotzebue, was shown in a shack in St. Fiden.
Later, allowed the troops still in the monastery Fürstäbtliche Remise move outside the city limits. This was created in 1795 under Abbot Beda. On October 14, 1801, the Première of the first St. Galler theater found in the simply furnished room instead, with the silver wedding anniversary or the happiness of the country 's once again satisfied with a piece of the then successful authors Kotzebue. From 1801 to 1856 the depot between Charles and spisertor served as a theater building. Beginning of the 19th century a small extension was made, which housed the box office and a small refreshment room.
With its " theater Actionnairs society" created the first Chief Magistrate of the new canton of St. Gallen, Karl Müller- Friedberg, 1805, the basis for the first Swiss professional theaters Dreispartentheater offer on a private basis and stood to her until his resignation in 1831.
In 1850 the city commissioned Johann Christoph Kunkler, to look for a suitable building site. He chose the former monastery garden of St. Catherine and the old armory, today Bohl. On November 5, 1857 Kunkler - new building at Bohl was opened with Mozart's Don Giovanni. During more than a century were to be seen until the curtain closed in January 1968 after Millöckers The Beggar Student for the last time in this building, the productions of the Municipal Theatre. The Kunkler Building was demolished in 1971; Today there is a McDonalds.
New
The consistent implementation of basic architectural idea of the new theater building ( Claude Paillard ), take place in the today 's ideas of theater St. Gallen, is the regular hexagon and thus the 60 ° angle. On March 15, 1968, the building was opened with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio. On the occasion of the new building, the corporation has been replaced by a cooperative, in which also the city and canton were involved and still are. The adjacent cantons and municipalities gradually involved in the theater. As part of the new financial compensation, the theater should be considered as an infrastructure service for the region.
Since 2000, the St. Gallen Symphony and the former Stadttheater St. Gallen operate under Concert and Theater St. Gallen. Through this legal form a value-added tax optimization could be achieved as the orchestra for the stage in operas, operettas and musicals provides services. The name of the city theater was dropped because the Canton had decided to carry more than half of the subsidies.
Guest performances
During 1926-1977, the ensemble of the theater in the summer recorded the Kurtheater Baden, drama trip to Baden and Visp find today held regularly, rare to Chur and Schaffhausen.
Schedule
The Theater St. Gallen performed as a three- division operation, each season brings out about 20 new productions and is visited at around 430 performances of 130,000 spectators ( figures for 2009 /10) from around the Bodensee area. In the large hall can seat 742 people, on the studio stage 100
Widely acclaimed premieres of recent times were such as the German -language premiere of Hairspray, the premiere of the restored music material for Medea in Corinto by Johann Simon Mayr 2009, the rediscovery of the Swiss musicals Bibi Balù 2010 and the premiere of the musical Moses - The 10 Commandments of Dieter Falk and Michael Kunze in 2013.
In general, the Theater St. Gallen has profiled in recent years with productions of musicals, although the stage may not offer the technical possibilities of a Broadway stage. Not least thanks to the revenue from the musical theater productions, but also by a generally good utilization of the house is able to contribute with a very large for German -speaking theater own share of about 35% to its financing.
As a stage for smaller productions the city theater are the two rooms in the converted Lokremise available. The so-called studio theater in the main building is no longer used because of that.
Line ( 2012/ 13)
- Managing Director: Werner Signer
- Opera Director: Peter Heilker
- Chief Conductor: Otto Tausk
- Director of the dance company: Marco Santi
- Concert Director: Florian Scheiber
- Acting Director: Tim Kramer