Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux

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Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux

The Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux or Grand Théâtre (Bordeaux) is a historic building in the south-west French city ​​of Bordeaux and an important stage for opera and theater.

Location and description

The Grand Théâtre by night

The Grand Théâtre is the most important theater in the city and metropolitan region in southwest France and is the venue of the Opéra National de Bordeaux for opera / operetta , spoken theater , concerts, dance theater and events. The Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux with around 1,100 seats is located in the center of the city of Bordeaux about 300 meters west of the banks of the Garonne . The theater building consists of a roughly rectangular structure, the main front of which is oriented roughly to the southwest towards the Place de la Comedie . It was built from brown natural stone and has two towering full storeys and a lower stacked storey with a slightly inclined metal roof. The entrance portal can be reached via five steps of a flight of stairs and is framed by twelve columns in Corinthian style with appropriately designed capitals . Above are twelve statues: those of the nine muses and the goddesses Juno , Venus and Minerva .

history

The theater was built between 1773 and 1780 by the architect Victor Louis and the inauguration and operation of the theater began on April 7, 1780 with the drama Athalie by Jean Racine .

Web links

Commons : Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Information on the official homepage of the Bordeaux Opera ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opera-bordeaux.com

Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 32.8 "  N , 0 ° 34 ′ 27.5"  W.