Drottningholm Palace Theater

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Stage in the Schlosstheater (2016)
Scene in Drottningholms Slottsteater 1966
Orchestra of Drottningholms Slottsteater 1966
Scene in Drottningholms Slottsteater 1962

The Drottningholm Palace Theater (Swedish: Drottningholms Slottsteater ) is a theater in Drottningholm Palace near Stockholm in Sweden .

In summer, the Drottningholm Palace Theater Festival primarily stages operas from the 18th century (by Handel , Gluck , Haydn and Mozart ) with a focus on historically informed performance practice. In addition to the Baroque style 1664–1703 by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. Ä. (and his son of the same name ), the theater building was built by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz from 1762 and inaugurated in 1766. Today it holds about 400 visitors. The stage machinery of the Italian Donato Stopani (with wave machine and wind machine ) is used unchanged to this day.

After the murder of King Gustav III. in 1792 ( Giuseppe Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera deals with this topic) the theater was closed and forgotten. In 1920 the theater was rediscovered, electrified and put back into operation. The directors of the theater in the 20th century include Arnold Östman (1980–1992), Elisabeth Söderström (1993–1996), Per-Erik Öhrn, Nicholas McGegan and Mark Tatlow. Some parts of the film Magic Flute by Ingmar Bergman based on Mozart's opera were recorded in 1974 at the Schlosstheater.

In 1991 the entire palace, including the garden and theater, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The theater building, like most of the buildings in the castle park, has been under monument protection as Byggnadsminne since 1935 .

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