Opernhaus Wuppertal

The Wuppertal Opera House is an originally as a city theater Barmen in 1905 erected theater, which is the main venue of the Wuppertal Opera and Dance Theatre Pina Bausch today. When, after the Second World War in the 1950s style renovated, original Art Nouveau building obligor is the building complex, which was extended by additions in the 1970s, restored, and from 2006-09, a historical monument.

Architectural History

1905, the original building was completed designed by the Cologne architect Carl Moritz. This building, one of the time of origin corresponding mixture of Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau, was heavily damaged in the night 30 May 1943 during an air raid.

After long discussions about whether to demolish the ruins and build a completely new building or whether they should plan using the remaining buildings fell - not least for reasons of cost - the decision to reuse the ruin.

On Sunday, October 14, 1956, the house was opened with a ceremony and a gala performance of Paul Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler. It ended after the destruction of the former city theater Wuppertal Opera House furnished temporary in the town hall in Elberfeld. For the first time in its history, the theater house now served exclusively as a venue for opera and ballet - and from 1974 for the dance theater of Pina Bausch. After the reconstruction of ruins was from a theater with four ranks in the auditorium now a house with two tiers become. Consciousness had one on the restoration of " indigestible form language of Art Nouveau", the Wuppertal Baudezernent Friedrich Hetzelt omitted. It was, despite the old shell, a building from the aesthetic sensibilities of the 1950s emerged. As a significant example of this ( interior) architectural direction it is now a listed building.

Through a negative failed fire protection advice, the closure of the opera house by December 2003 became inevitable. In December 2002, the Council of the City of Wuppertal decided to clean up the house, which could begin in late 2006 after a long lead. On 18 January 2009, the Wuppertal Opera House was reopened with a ceremony.

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