Court Opera

A court opera is a court theater that played court operas . It was subordinate to a princely court .

Up until the end of the First World War in 1918, many of the opera houses that still exist today were called Hofoper and not all of them were freely accessible (see court ability ). With the change of ownership after the abdication of the aristocracy, they were subsequently renamed State Opera , Municipal Opera, etc. Some court operas , such as the Paris Opera , were civicized as early as the 19th century.

Examples

• Royal Court Opera Berlin , today State Opera Unter den Linden
• Dresden Court Opera
• Munich Court Opera in the Residenztheater (Munich) , later in the Royal Court and National Theater Munich , see National Theater Munich
• Schwetzingen Court Opera
• Hofoper Vienna , see Kärntnertortheater , since 1868 in the building of today's Vienna State Opera