Bern Theatre
The Stadttheater Bern on Kornhausplatz 20 in Bern hosts a three- division stage for opera, drama and ballet.
The neoclassical building was - funded by a joint stock company - the architect René built by Wurstemberger and opened on 25 September 1903. The theater replaced the previously recorded a century Hôtel de Musique at the Theatre Square, which now houses the Restaurant Du Théâtre is located.
At the opening of Tannhäuser was performed by Richard Wagner, preceded by a ceremony of Joseph Victor Widmann, in which an allegorical figure next to Apollo and the Muses also occurred wife Bernadette.
On October 19, 1903 approved the shareholders of the corporation to sell the home theater to the city of Bern; the company was finally liquidated but only in April 1917.
Since 2012, the Stadttheater Bern is part of the new institution " KonzertTheaterBern " to the next to the Municipal Theater and the Bern Symphony Orchestra heard. It is in this form for Switzerland a unique organizational model and four- division house.
Directors
Famous former and current actors and singers of the ensemble
Among the artists who appeared even in the town theater, include: Erich Aberle, Robin Adams, Ladislaus Anderko, Karin Anselm, Peter Arens, Wilfried Baasner, Agnes Baltsa, Ruth Baldor, Klara Barlow, Friedhelm Becker, Mary Becker, Richard Bedel, André Benndorf, Theodor Bitzos, Ingrid Bjoner, Peter Binder, William Blankenship, Kurt Böhme, Christian Boesch, Inge Borkh, Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry, Paul Burkhard, José Carreras, Lisa della Casa, Scipio Colombo, Rudolf Constantin, Fiorenza Cossotto, Alberto Cupido, Josef Danegger, Ratko Delorko, Waltraud Demmer, Helga Dernesch, Plácido Domingo, Eva Maria Duhan, Hellmuth Ebbs, Harald Ek, Uli Eichenberger, Wolfgang Fassler, Gottfried Fehr, Willy Frey, Helmut Förnbacher, William Forney, Hans Joachim Frick, Erich Good wine, Ursula Füri -Bernhard, Barbara Gilbert, Heidi Maria Glössner, Elsbeth Gmür, Mathias Gnädinger, Käthe Gold, Heinrich Gretler, Günter Gube, Hedda Heusser, Maresa Hörbiger, Mirjana Irosch, Margaret Jacobs, Silvia Jost, Jacob Keller, Richard Kogel, Dagmar Koller Hanns Krassnitzer, Hansy Krauss, Sybille Krumpholz, David Kuebler, Albert Kunz, Benno Kusche, Krisztina Laki, Eva Lind, Walter Lederer, Waldemar Leitgeb, Alfred Lohner, Walo Lüönd Spiro Makri, Georg Mark Czimeg, Edith Mathis, Franz Matter, Glado of May, Krikor Melikyan, Günther Missenhardt, Martha Mödl Alexander Moissi, Morris Morgan, Hans -Heinz Moser, Fridolin Mosbacher, Melitta Muszely, Noemi Nadelmann, Jessye Norman, Julia Pall, Enzia Pircher, Liselotte Pulver, Will Quadflieg, Nelly Rademacher, Wolfgang Reichmann, Nello Santi, Harald Serafin, Christine Schäfer, Elvira Schalcher, Margaret Schell Noé, Maria Schell, Rolf Schimpf, Uwe Schoenbeck, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Stefan Skodler, Hannes Schmid Hauser, Friedrich Schütze, Adolph Spalinger, Hans Stöckl, Isabel Strauss, Helga Thieme, Heinz Trixner, Toni of Tuason, Heinz Weihmann, Ortrun Wenkel, Gerty Wiessner, Maria -Luise Willi, Elisabeth joke man, Zbyslav Wozniak and Ilse Zielstorff.
The Stadttheater Bern employs approximately 300 full-time and part-time salaried employees, and between 50 and 180 artists from over 25 nations.
Artistic Director Adam
At the beginning of the artistic direction of Marc Adam a new venue was opened in Köniz, a neighboring town of Bern. The Vidmarhallen house ( with rental), two venues for theater and ballet, as well as the ballet studio since 2007 the costume store.