Bourlaschouwburg
The Bourlaschouwburg is a theater in the city of Antwerp in Belgium .
The decision to build the theater was made in the city in 1827. The architect Pierre Bourla was commissioned to design the architecture. Construction began in 1829 but was delayed by the Belgian Revolution .
Eventually the theater was completed in 1834 and opened under the name Grand Théâtre des Théâtre Royal Français by the company that played there. It currently houses the Bourlastraat Toneelhuis , which is a merger of the companies of the Royal Flemish Theater with the Blauwe Maandag Compagnie . The building now has around 900 seats.
Endangered cultural monument
Since May 2014, the Bourlaschouwburg has been on the list of endangered cultural monuments in Europe due to the planned renewal of the technology, as the predominantly original stage technology from 1834 is still in the house.
When, in the course of preparations for the Capital of Culture, funds were released for renovation around 1993, a conflict developed between the ballet troupe and the Belgian theater technicians' association BASTT: the ballet wanted modern stage machinery , while the theater technicians wanted to keep the baroque stage machinery. In the original, such old machinery can only be found in the castle theaters in Drottningholm and Český Krumlov .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Daberto: Historical and modern - a contrast? , Bühnentechnische Rundschau 4/2014, pp. 72–75.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 2 " N , 4 ° 24 ′ 34" E