Saxon State Theater
The Saxon State Theaters are a state enterprise of the Free State of Saxony founded on January 1, 2013 and based in the state capital Dresden .
organization
The Saxon State Theaters consist of the Saxon State Opera Dresden and the State Theater Dresden . A joint charter, together with the statute and the rules of procedure, regulates the principles of the merger as well as the structure and management of state operations. Only the non-artistic area is united in it. In addition to the previously shared workshops on Ostra-Allee, this applies in particular to administration and logistics, including the transport and storage of scenery. Both houses are therefore still artistically independent with their divisions, directors and employees, but not legally.
history
State Opera and State Theater treaded common paths in earlier times. The State Opera emerged from the Royal Court Theater, whose founding date is January 1, 1817 and which in turn has its roots in a longer operatic tradition at the electoral court in Dresden. The venues included the Morettisches Opernhaus , from 1841 until it was destroyed by fire in 1869, the Royal Court Theater (the "first Semperoper"), and from 1878 until its destruction in 1945 and again after the reconstruction in 1985, the Semperoper . The State Theater goes back to a 1909 established bourgeois theater club that much of the construction costs for the 1911 erected playhouse muster. When it opened on September 13, 1913 as the “Neues Königliches Schauspielhaus”, the theater ensemble moved from the Semperoper to this venue. Both houses belonged to the Royal Court Theater .
After the November Revolution in 1918 and the abdication of the Saxon King was the Court Theater in 1918 in Saxony State Theater and 1920 in Saxony State Theater renamed. The theater was also destroyed by the air raids on Dresden in 1945, but was reopened on September 22, 1948. It served the Dresden State Theater, which emerged from the Saxon State Theater, as a venue for opera, ballet, drama and the Staatskapelle. The Dresden State Operetta was also part of the Dresden State Theater from 1958 to 1967 . Until 1983 opera and drama had a joint artistic director. In the run-up to the opening of the rebuilt Semperoper, the houses became independent as the Dresden State Opera and Dresden State Theater, with the Dresden ballet division and the State Orchestra remaining with the State Opera. In 2012 the decision was made to merge both houses again. This took effect on January 1, 2013. Wolfgang Rothe, commercial director of the Semperoper since 2005, has also been responsible for the Saxon State Theaters since then.
literature
- Winfried Höntzsch: Opera metropolis Dresden. Verlag der Kunst, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 90-5705-003-X .
- Heinrich Magirius : The Semperoper in Dresden. 2nd Edition. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-361-00515-9 .
- Wilfried Schulz, Harald Müller, Felicitas Zürcher (ed.): Staatsschauspiel Dresden - 100 Years of the Schauspielhaus. The anniversary book. 1st edition. Theater der Zeit, Berlin October 2012, ISBN 978-3-943881-01-1 .