Salzburger Landestheater
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Salzburg State Theatre
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| Address | Schwarzstraße 22, 5020 |
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| Location | Salzburg, Austria |
| Coordinates | 47°48′10″N 13°2′34″E / 47.80278°N 13.04278°E |
| Capacity | 707 |
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| Built | 1892-1893 |
| Opened | 1 October 1893 |
| Architect | Fellner & Helmer |
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The Salzburg State Theatre is a theatre situated in Salzburg, Austria, and is the leading company for performing arts in Salzburg with international reputation. The theatre is home to Opera, Theatre, Dance and Theatre for Young Audiences with a resident company of actors, singers and dancers. It performs consistently contemporary and classical works and is playing 400 performances each season which stretches from September to June. The main theatre building is located next to the Mirabell Gardens and seats an audience of 707. The staff consists of 340 people originating from 35 different countries.
The theatre is a listed building and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Altstadt Salzburg.
In 1775, Prince Archbishop Colloredo built the »Prince Archbishop Court Theatre» on the site of the former ballroom of 1625. The official opening of the building was celebrated with Christian Heinrich Schmid’s »Die Gunst des Fürsten» which, beholden to enlightenment, was soon followed by Schiller’s dramas. Emmanuel Schikaneder was engaged as director of the Court Theatre for several years and during this time got to know the Mozart Family who enjoyed regular invitations to his box. His music was performed in this building for the first time in 1776. With the staging of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1784, regular performances of Mozart’s repertoire began.
The building as it is today was built between 1892 and 1893 and was designed by the architect duo Fellner & Helmer. The Viennese architects were considered two of the most successful constructors of modern theatre buildings of the time, which was partly due to their invention, the iron curtain (a fireproof curtain between the stage and the auditorium). Both artists and audiences agreed that the architects had made an excellent job of designing the neo-baroque theatre with seating on three levels; stalls, boxes and balcony which met the requirements of opera, theatre and ballet. The building was festively opened on October 1, 1893 with the overture from Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. In this year, Max Reinhardt had been engaged as an actor in the company. With the experience gained at the Salzburg State Theatre, he moved on to Berlin where he became a director and very successful general manager of several theatres. In 1920 he founded the Salzburg Festival together with Hugo von Hoffmansthal and Richard Strauss. Due to the Second World War, the Theatre was closed in 1944 and in 1945 used as a radio studio by the Americans. After the war, it was opened to the public again.
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