Morettisches Opera House
The Morettisches Opernhaus had been the most popular opera house in Dresden since the end of the 18th century, in the era of Carl Maria von Weber and until the first Semper Opera was built .
history
From 1664 to 1667 a first opera house was built in Dresden near the castle (“ Klengel's Opera House on Taschenberg ” near the Zwinger ); in 1719 the opera house at the Zwinger followed . In the middle of the 18th century, the impresario Pietro Moretti , who was visiting Dresden, was granted the privilege of building a “standing theater” here. This was then built in 1754/55 by Julius Heinrich Schwarze and courtroom, mechanical and theater builder Christian Gottlieb Reuss from timber and timber on the site of the Italian village (where the northeast side of the theater square at the Semperoper is today). In 1761, after Moretti had made a guest appearance in Bayreuth , it was rebuilt from stone.
In 1780 it was named the court theater, but only referred to as the small court theater, as the still existing theater at the Zwinger was significantly larger.
The Moretti Theater had a floor plan of around 40 × 17 meters and had three tiers with initially 350 seats; in 1783 it was expanded to accommodate around 800 spectators.
The troops of Joseph Seconda , Johann Gottlieb Naumann and later Ferdinando Paër , Francesco Morlacchi and finally Weber and Carl Gottlieb Reissiger worked in this theater and the one on the Lincke'schen Bad .
After the new Royal Court Theater Gottfried Sempers with Weber's “Jubel Overture” and Goethe's play Torquato Tasso was inaugurated on April 13, 1841 after only three years of construction , the Morettian Opera House was demolished.
World premieres
(Selection)
- Francesco Morlacchi : Il barbiere di Siviglia , April 1816
Hofkapellmeister
Important composers worked as conductors at the Dresden Court Opera at that time:
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801)
- Ferdinando Paër (1771–1839, in the period 1802–1806)
- Francesco Morlacchi (1784–1841, Italian Opera Department in the period 1811–1841)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826, German Opera Department from 1817–1826)
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798-1859, in the period after 1826-1859)
Singers (selection)
Web links
- Renovation project 1751 ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Floor plan from 1751 ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Ulrich Rosseaux: Free spaces: entertainment, pleasure and relaxation in Dresden 1694-1830
- HJ Haupt: The big stage of the city of Dresden
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Loebel. In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 3: Hirata - Seagulls. 3rd, expanded edition. Saur, Bern et al. 1999, ISBN 3-598-11250-5 , p. 2103.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 15.6 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 11.8" E