Castle Opera House

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Cross-section with the mechanics of the cord bottom and a decoration from the 18th century; Ink drawing by Johann Friedrich Junge , 1746
Schlosstheater Hannover elevation
Title page of the opera Enrico Leone by Agostino Steffani , libretto: Ortensio Mauro (opening in 1689)
Last world premiere: Austin 1852 by Heinrich Marschner
Schlosstheater Hannover floor plan
The curtain painted by Johann Heinrich Ramberg for the palace opera house in 1789 made it famous;
Postcard (detail) from 1897

The Palace Opera House or Palace Theater in Hanover was an opera house built right next to the Leineschloss .

history

The theater building was built in 1688/1689 and was one of the largest and most beautiful theaters of its time until the 18th century . Its construction was discussed in correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . In 1746 Johann Friedrich Jungs depicted a "Grund-Riss Sr. Groß-Britannichen Majestet Schloss Opera House in Hanover".

The Kapellmeister and composer Agostino Steffani not only delivered the opening opera Henrico Leone (1689), but also new works almost every year: La lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo (1689), La superbia d'Alessandro (1690), Orlando generoso (1691), Le rivali concordi (1692), La libertà contenta (1693), Baccanali (1695) and I trionfi del fato (1695).

The baroque building on the Leine paved the way for the Welfs to reach the Electorate of Hanover . The 1300-seat building was located on the site of today's Lower Saxony state parliament .

The house was the predecessor of the neo-classical opera house built by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves in the middle of the 19th century and was used until 1852. It was the scene of world premieres of two Marschner operas, Der Bäbu in February 1838 and Austin in January 1852.

Personalities

literature

  • Friedrich Ebel : The former castle opera house in Hanover. In: Die Denkmalpflege , episode 16, 1914, pp. 60 ff., 67 ff.
  • Max Ferdinand Gerhäuser: The planning of theaters and their development in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 23 (1969), pp. 85–144
  • Rosenmarie Elisabeth Wallbrecht: The theater of the baroque age at the Guelph courts of Hanover and Celle. With 27 plates (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 83), at the same time dissertation in 1972 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Hildesheim: Lax, 1974, pp. 30–59; contents
  • Bernhard Dörries , Helmut Plath : Old Hanover. The history of a city in contemporary images, 1600-1900 , fourth, improved edition, Hanover: Heinrich Feesche Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-87223-0247 , pp. 60, 61 u. a.
  • Richard Doebner: Handel in Hanover. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony , year 1985, p. 297f.
  • Urs Boeck : Hanover's baroque opera house , in Sabine Hammer (Hrsg.): The opera house in Hanover. Architecture and theater history , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft und Druckerei, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87706-029-2 and ISBN 3-87706-029-3 , pp. 9-16
  • Hugo Thielen : Castle Theater, also Castle Opera House. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 544.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rosenmarie Elisabeth Wallbrecht: The theater of the baroque age at the Guelph courts of Hanover and Celle , A. Lax, 1974, 264 pp.
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen: Castle Theater, also Castle Opera House. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 544
  3. ↑ Hans Werner Dannowski : "Then we'll go to Hanover". Views and impressions from a city , with eight collages by Siegfried Neuenhausen , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000, ISBN 3-87706-569-4 , pp. 17, 98; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Angelika Weißmann: 24 Georg Carl Andreas Wagner , in Angelika Weißmann (text), Silke Beck, Nadine Köpper, Claudia Wollkopf (editor), Karin von Schwartzenberg (responsible): The former St. Nikolai cemetery. A garden monument in the center of Hanover , illustrated brochure (50 pages) with a historical outline and an annotated folding plan for historically significant tombs, ed. from the City of Hanover, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Green Areas - Central Tasks, Hanover: LHH, 2016, p. 41 and others; as a PDF document


Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12.4 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 2.1"  E