Theater Regensburg is a theatrical organization that produces opera

Opera

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s, musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

s, ballet

Ballet

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s, play

Play (theatre)

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s, and concert

Concert

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s in Regensburg, Germany

Germany

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. The organization operates several performance venues throughout the city.

History

Theater Regensburg was established in 1804 with the opening of the Stadttheater Regensburg at Bismarckplatz 7. That theatre was designed by Emanuel Herigoyen and destroyed by a fire in 1849. The theatre was rebuilt under a new design, also by Herigoyen, and opened in 1852 with a performance of Meyerbeer's Die Hugenotten

Les Huguenots

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. The theatre was modernized in 1898 and again majorly renovated in the 1990s. That theatre, now known as the Theater am Bismarckplatz, remains Regensburg's principle venue for operas and operetta

Operetta

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s. It is also occasionally used for ballets, musicals, plays, and orchestral concerts; however the Velodrome (original built in 1897 as a Radsporthalle, now room for 620 spectators) is the main stage for those kinds of productions. The Theater am Haidplatz with 138 seats has been used literary and modern theater. More experimental works are often presented at the Turmtheater, a smaller venue with 88 seats. Ernö Weil is Intendant

Intendant

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 since 2002.

Premieres

• Georg Britting / Erwin Weill (1885–1943[?]): An der Schwelle (cycle of one act works, lost), 27 March 1913 (Theater am Bismarckplatz)
• Madame (Weill / Britting)
• Potiphar (Britting)
• Der törichte Jüngling (Britting)
• Richard Billinger: Die Hexe von Passau, 1935 (Theater am Bismarckplatz)
• Ernst Wiechert
  Ernst Wiechert
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  : Der armen Kinder Weihnachten, 1946 (also in Stuttgart)
• Michael Ende
  Michael Ende
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   (libretto) / Wilfried Hiller (music): Der Lindwurm und der Schmetterling, 11. Januar 1981 (Theater am Bismarckplatz)
• Jürg Amann
  Jürg Amann
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  : Nachgerufen, 1984 (Theater am Haidplatz?)
• Harald Grill: Dem Hans sei Ganshaut oder wo die Liebe hinfällt, 5. Oktober 1985 (Theater am Haidplatz)
• Harald Grill: Jorinde und Joringel im Wackersdorfer Wald, 6. November 1987 (Theater am Haidplatz)
• Harald Grill: Vater unser, 1997(?)
• Paula Köhler (libretto) / Thomas Bartel (music): Der Patient, 15. April 2005 (Theater am Haidplatz)
• Luisella Sala: La porta aperta, 5. Dezember 2007 (Turmtheater)
• Franz Csiky (libretto) / József Sári (music): Der Hutmacher, 29. März 2008 (Velodrom)
• Eva Demski: Die blaue Donau, 11. April 2008 (Theater am Bismarckplatz)
• Sandra Hummel (libretto) / Franz Hummel
  Franz Hummel
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  (music): Zarathustra, opera in 12 scenes, 24. April 2010 (Theater am Bismarckplatz)

Literature in German

• Helmut Pigge: Theater in Regensburg, MZ-Buchverlag, Regensburg 1998. ISBN 3-931904-40-7
• Magnus Gaul: Musiktheater in Regensburg in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Studien zum Repertoire und zur Bearbeitungspraxis (= Regensburger Beiträge zur Musikgeschichte 3), Schneider-Verlag, Tutzing 2004.
• Christoph Meixner: Musiktheater in Regensburg im Zeitalter des Immerwährenden Reichstages (= Musik und Theater 3), Studio-Verlag, Sinzig 2008.

External links

• Theater Regensburg on the Regensburg website