Staatstheater Braunschweig
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Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
house in Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Joachim Klement has been the intendant
Intendant
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there since 2010.
The Staatstheater comprises music theatre, ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
and theatre.
Owner of the Staatstheater Braunschweig is Niedersachsen.
History
The first predecessor of the Staatstheater Braunschweig was built in 1690. HerzogHerzog (name)
Herzog is a German hereditary title held by one who rules a territorial duchy, exercises feudal authority over an estate called a duchy, or possesses a right, by law or tradition, to be referred to by the ducal title. The word is usually translated by the English duke and the Latin Dux. Generally,...
Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig opened Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig. Theater works like Emilia Galotti
Emilia Galotti
Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick . The work is a classic example of German bürgerliches Trauerspiel . Other works in this category include Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Hebbel's Maria Magdalene...
and Goethe's Faust
Goethe's Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: and . Although written as a closet drama, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages...
had their first opening in Braunschweig.
Intendant
- 1925-29: Prof.Dr.Neubeck
- 1929-33: Dr. Himmighoffen
- 1933-34: Oskar Walleck
- 1934-45: Dr. Alexander Schum
- 1945-46: Jost Dahmen
- 1946-47: Heinrich Voigt
- 1947-51: Walter Bruno Iltz
- 1951-61: Hermann Kühn
- 1961-63: Erich Kriebig
- 1964-67: Helmuth Matiasek
- 1967-68: Hermann Kühn
- 1968-72: Hans Peter Doll
- 1972-79: Chritoph Groszer
- 1979-91: Mario Krüger
- 1991-93: Hans Peter Doll
- 1993-94: Jürgen Flügge
- 1995-97: Board of directors: Brigitte FassbaenderBrigitte FassbaenderBrigitte Fassbaender , is a mezzo-soprano opera singer, a stage director and since 1997 Intendant of the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, Austria...
, Philippe AuguinPhilippe AuguinPhilippe Auguin is a French conductor. He studied horn and singing at the Conservatory of Nice. He also completed an additional conducting studies. It was followed by further years of study at the Vienna Academy of Music which he completed in 1988.Philippe Auguin was an assistant to Herbert von...
, Tatjana Rese - 1997-2010: Wolfgang Gropper
- since 2010 Joachim Klement