Chemnitz Opera House
The Chemnitz Opera House is the main venue for the music theater sections of the Chemnitz Theater . It was built in Chemnitz from 1906 to 1909 , the architect was Richard Möbius . It is located on the Theaterplatz , between the adjacent buildings of the King Albert Museum and the Petrikirche .
The opera house was badly damaged during the Second World War , but was rebuilt from 1947 to 1951.
From 1957 to 1989, the Austrian director Carl Riha shaped the fortunes of the house as opera director, in which Harry Kupfer and Christine Mielitz also worked as senior stage directors from 1962 to 1966 . From 2006 to 2012 the house was headed by Bernhard Helmich , who brought many important but long-unperformed works of operatic history back to the stage.
Since the renovation carried out between 1988 and 1992 by the architects Günter Hauptmann, Jochen Krüger and Karl-Heinz Barth , the opera house has been one of the most modern in Germany and Europe. This is mainly due to the existing stage technology with a special turntable. It offers space for up to 714 spectators (+ 6 wheelchair users). The architects were awarded the BDA Saxony Prize in 1994 for their work on the Chemnitz Opera House .
Technical specifications
- Stage size
- Main stage: 473.10 m², payload 5 kN / m²
- Backstage: 240.37 m², payload 5 kN / m²
- Side stage: 153.52 m², payload 5 kN / m²
- Front stage (when the orchestra lift platforms are raised): 118.00 m², payload 5 kN / m²
- Orchestra pit : 133.00 m²
- Portal section
- Brick portal: width 11.10 m, height 8.95 m
- technical portal: width 10.60 m, height 1.00 m, up to max. 9.50 m movable
- Turntable cylinder
- Diameter: 15.80 m
- Height: 6.60 m
- infinitely variable rotation speed
- Three double-decker lift platforms
- each 10.50 m × 3.50 m
- Infinitely variable extension speed
- Two stage wagons each 10.50 m × 3.50 m × 0.33 m
- Hand pulls
- Load bar length max. 18.0 m
- Payload 2.5 kN
- Machine trains
- Load bar length max. 18.0 m
- Payload 4 kN
- Working speed 0–1.0 m / s adjustable
- Circular prospectus hoists, medium load bar length approx. 44.0 m
- Point hoist systems (6 suspension points each)
- 1 × stage
- 2 × front stage
literature
- Volkmar Leimert : 90 years of the Chemnitz Opera House. 1909-1999 . Städtisches Theater, Chemnitz 1999, 72 pages.
- Volkmar Leimert: 100 years of the Chemnitz Opera House. 18 sheets on the history of the opera house . Städtisches Theater, Chemnitz 2009, 36 pages.
- Tilo Richter: The Theaterplatz. Past and present in the middle of Chemnitz. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-57-X .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 18 ″ N , 12 ° 55 ′ 27 ″ E