Opéra national de Lorraine

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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 .

  • Place Stanislas

  • Side view

  • foyer

  • Stage portal

  • detail

  • balcony

Web links

Commons : Opéra national de Lorraine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Véronique Lemaire, René Hainaux: Theater and Architecture - Stage Design - Costume A Bibliographic Guide in Five Languages ​​(1970–2000), Peter Lang 2006, p. 110