Old Theater (Arad)

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The old theater is a listed building in Arad , Romania . The building is located at 3 Gheorghe Lazar Street , in the 1st district of Centru , not far from the Ioan Slavici Classical Theater . The building was used as a theater , opera house and eventually a cinema over the centuries .

theatre

The first theater in Arad was built in the baroque style in 1817 as a private project by the Viennese trader Jacob Hirschl . In 1818 a German theater group under the direction of Cristofor Kun performed here .

The permanent season of the German theater in Arad began with the construction of the “Komödienhaus”. The directors Kunz and Kollmann (1820–1833) delighted the audience with comedies, musical plays, drama and tragedy. Numerous German , Hungarian and Romanian ensembles have appeared on its stage over the years .

The first performance in Romanian took place in 1846. It was the play "Zwei Forgetlichen" by August von Kotzebue , which Ioan Popovici translated into Romanian. The piece was performed by the students of the Arader Preparandia .

Likewise were the theater companies Mihai Pascaly and Matei Millo from Bucharest here on, the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu in a theatrical performance, led by Mihai Pascaly in 1868 prompter was. The old theater was closed in 1873. A year later the new theater was opened.

Opera

Austrian, Hungarian and German opera companies performed in the theater building. A large part of the accumulated opera music library and the archive could be secured. This sheet music wandered all over Europe with the opera companies. It contains comments, entries and notes on various performances in Saint Petersburg , Odessa , Bucharest , Cluj , Arad, Timisoara , Szeged , Budapest , Esseg , Prague , Pressburg , Berlin , Vienna , Linz , Strasbourg and Paris . The extensive poster collection of almost 500 pieces testifies to the high value that operas and operettas in Arad in the 19th century were given.

The first opera was performed in 1824. In the operatic repertoire , the Italian masters came first. From 1833 to 1838 Eduard August Miller directed the Arad theater stage. Ignaz Huber and Eduard Kreibig took over the management of the theater from 1839 to 1842. The prompter's booklet from 1842 shows performances of Hamlet , Die Zauberflöte and Lumpazivagabundus . In 1842 Ignaz Huber was replaced by the director Philipp Nötzl, who had previously worked in Timisoara and Pest . The number of actors rose to 25 people.

movie theater

On November 30, 1907, Romania's first cinema under the name "Urania" was opened in the building of the old theater. On April 16, 1913, a Romanian film "Războiul Independenţei" (The War of Independence) played here for the first time. In 1917 the cinema got its present form. The Urania cinema was in operation until 1967. After the revolution of December 1989 , the building was returned to its rightful heirs. After lengthy negotiations, the city administration bought the building. The building, which is in great need of renovation, is to be restored and refurbished true to the original.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b rumaenien-info.at ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Arad, the city on the Maroschufer
  2. ↑ semlak.de (PDF; 6.0 MB), Georg Schmidt: Unser Arad, accessed on August 4, 2011
  3. ↑ primariaarad.ro , Teatrul vechi
  4. ↑ uni-leipzig.de , Franz Metz: The opera as an institution in southeastern Europe with special consideration of the Banat music centers Timisoara, Arad and Orawitza

Coordinates: 46 ° 10 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 21 ° 19 ′ 9 ″  E