Opéra national de Lorraine
The Opéra national de Lorraine is located in Nancy and is the most important opera house in north-eastern France . The house has had its current name since January 2006, previously it was called Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine .
history
The first Nancy Opera House, built in the 1750s, was located on the site of what is now the Musée des Beaux-arts on Place Stanislas. The house burned down completely on the night of October 4th to 5th, 1906 - after a rehearsal of the opera Mignon . In the same year an architectural competition for a new opera was announced. This was won by the architects Jean-François de La Borde and Joseph Hornecker (1873-1942), who proposed a historicist building with a traditional all'italiana auditorium , in the shape of a horseshoe, although the citizens of Nancy had an Art Nouveau project by Emil André would have preferred. Completion was delayed considerably due to the First World War . The opera opened successfully on October 14, 1919 with a performance of the Nibelungenoper Sigurd by Ernest Reyer .
In 1994 an extensive renovation and restoration of the house took place, which restored the original condition. It was led by the architect Thierry Algrin, a specialist in listed buildings. On January 1, 2006, the Ministry of Culture and Communication awarded the Opera House the title of National Opera - as the fifth house outside Paris, after Lyon , Bordeaux , Strasbourg and Montpellier .
Web links
- Opéra national de Lorraine , official website (French)
- Entry of the Opera House in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Youtube , productions of the Opéra national de Lorraine
- Operabase , productions of the Opéra national de Lorraine
Individual evidence
- ↑ Véronique Lemaire, René Hainaux: Theater and Architecture - Stage Design - Costume A Bibliographic Guide in Five Languages (1970–2000), Peter Lang 2006, p. 110