Important events
(detail)1685 | alteration
In 1685 it had been remodelled by the Italian architects Domenico and Gasparo Mauro. The Elector's box is its most conspicuous feature, the parterre still being left open so that the action could come forward 'in the round' if desired.
People
Francesco Santurini |main architect
History
In the decade after the Thirty Years' War, German and Austrian princes began providing themselves with theatres and opera houses. That at Munich, the Opernhaus in Salvatorplatz, built by a local baumeister in collaboration with the Venetian Francesco Santurini, was actually the first German theatre outside the walls of a palace. It was old-fashioned by Italian standards, but three galleries and a royal box were added in 1685 by Mauro.
In: Tidworth, Simon : Theatres: An Illustrated History. London 1973 p. 74
Author: Simon Tidworth
Simon Tidworth:
religious structures, Palais Garnier, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Semper Opera House, Teatro alla Scala, Verona Philharmonic Theatre, Teatro El Buen Retiro, Malmö Municipal Theatre, People's Theatre, National Opera of Bordeaux, Musical Theatre of Besançon, Opernhaus auf der Cortina, Theatre Royal, The London Coliseum, Opernhaus in Salvatorplatz, Stuttgart State OperaAdditional information
No information has yet been entered
Add information