Stuttgart State Opera
Max Littmann
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German architect, who focused his attention primarily on the construction of representative buildings as theatres, department stores and spa buildings.
More theatresGerman architect and professor, who designed initially in Baroque Revival style and around 1900 employed Art Nouveau and joined both the branches to original synthesis. He built especially for higher middle class.
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At the Staatstheater, Stuttgart (1912), Littmann combined both 'opera' and 'drama' in the Wagnerian senses, by building a large and a small theatre linked by administrative buildings; the larger is a simplified Semper plan, with a hidden orchestra but no 'mystic gulf.
In: Tidworth, Simon : Theatres: An Illustrated History. London 1973 p. 175
Author: Simon Tidworth
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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
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