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- Ioannis PapapetrouNovember 15, 2014Book tickets from net and enjoy shows..Not expensive and worth to saw live opera in Prague..The building inside is very beautiful..Dress nice because everyone else is...
- Rylan HoleyJanuary 30, 2016You've got to go here on your visit to Prague. World class opera at a bargain price. The only seats available were the high up second balcony - was not disappointed, view was great & seatscomfortable.
- Dinara AMarch 20, 2014Great deals for students! 50% price reduction. Don't be afraid to take farthest (and cheapest) seats. If it's not full, you can always switch to better ones
- Timo SalorantaMarch 24, 2014Go there! It's a very beautiful building, productions are great and prices very affordable when you compare it to other travel destinations. Of course you need to reserve your tickets beforehand.
- Social News NetworkJune 18, 2012Saw Rigoletto here and was very impressed. The performance was amazing and the opera house is absolutely gorgeous. Also, if you're a student they have a really nice discount!
- Jana A. KriAugust 27, 2016Absolutely beautiful theater, in my opinion it even exceeds the interiors of National Theater. No binoculars for rent however!
- Margaret TNovember 29, 2013The Box Office closes at 6pm during weekdays and the door to the theatre opens 45 minutes before each show. Leave your jacket with free cloakroom service!
- Melek IzmirliogluMay 7, 2016The Magic Flute... Glorious!!! It was unforgetable experience. If you visit Prague you need to experience it.
- Tomáš VaněkSeptember 20, 2014Please first think of what clothes can you have on, before buying a ticket. Boat shoes and blue jeans are definitelly not the dress code for Opera house. Save yourself from looking like an idiot!
- Vincent HarneySeptember 27, 2011Fantastic ! Great Opera and Ballet at affordable prices. This season's repetoire is excellent. Try to catch Dvorak's Rusalka if you can..
- Liza AlypovaJuly 13, 2015Incredibly beautiful place! The opera and ballet were there on the top level!
- BayarmaaMay 11, 2014One of the most beautiful theatres I have ever been to! The ballet 'Sleeping beauty' was wonderful!!
- SingaporeTLANovember 19, 2011Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. What an amazing performance in a beautiful architecture. A must thing to fo in Prague.
- Ozan KahramanMay 25, 2016Watched macbeth here , it was unnecessary long and seats are for chineese people and uncomfortable. so you can see the place and leave it ,thats all
- SaidJanuary 30, 2016Nice but bit out of hand. Reconstruction is recommended.
- Yulia TellMarch 9, 2012Very nice Rigoletto staging, loved Miguelangelo Cavalcanti's performance.
- Ashwin JeyarajApril 5, 2015Great friendly people, awesome service...
- Michaela Š.June 2, 2015Nadherne prostory... Doporucuji moderni tanec Amerikana III., uzasny!
- FraNtzeskaJanuary 24, 2014Stunning Tosca!!!
- Bassi HamidOctober 27, 2013Beautiful place!
- Freda LeeMay 20, 2015Purchase opera ticket.
- Zeina M.October 28, 2012Americana III, a must see!
- Lucie S.June 6, 2011Podporte Statni operu Praha a navstivte jeji predstaveni!
- Kamil TichýMarch 21, 2015... R & J ...
- Alfonso F. R.January 7, 2013Gran producción de Carmen aunque no hayan visto un torero en su vida. Los palcos laterales algo incómodos. El edificio precioso y manejable. Indispensable una copita de champán al descanso.
- Ângelo Miguel GeraldoOctober 20, 2015Construída em 1888 pela comunidade alemã de Praga para rivalizar com o Teatro Nacional, a Ópera do Estado tem a reputação de levar à cena as produções mais inovadoras de ópera, ballet e teatro.
- Dolf Wietzema MenkhorstMarch 15, 2015Geweldig om een opera in deze locatie mee te maken! Zéker een aanrader!
- Fer AraujoFebruary 27, 2014Lindíssima! Vale a pena conhecer. Assistimos a La Traviata, opera maravilhosa.
- WebsenatApril 21, 2014Eine der schönsten Oper die ich gesehen habe.
- Karolína FestováJanuary 3, 2016Opera Norma, naprosto dokonalé představení. Sice moderní zpracování kostýmů, ale představitelka Normy, nemá konkurenci, naprosto skvostný hlas! A to už mám pár oper za sebou :)
- Nihal IşıldakApril 10, 2013Herkes dakikalarca alkışlıyor Avrupa da ancak sanatçıları ayakta alkışlamıyor
- Stream.czMarch 10, 2014Nové německé divadlo - nacistická Německá opera - Divadlo 5. května - Smetanovo divadlo - Státní opera. České dějiny posledních 130 let koncentrované do jedné budovy. http://bit.ly/StatniOperaRead more
- Jindra ŠalkaDecember 30, 2015Nejlepší místo pro balet nebo operu. Nezaměnitelně krásný symfonický orchestr a vystoupení rovněž.
- Barbara LenzováJune 12, 2013Na jedné straně večerní róby, na straně druhé tenisky a džíny. Co už, ale na Labutí jezero zajděte, nikde ho nemají krásněji zpracované, než právě tady.:)
- Hermes TrismegistusMay 28, 2016Представления идут с английскими субтитрами.
- Honza FeltAugust 28, 2014Přátelé, jestli jdete na představení v džínách a mikině, tak je něco špatně. Hoďte se do gala, kdo na vás má koukat?! Módní peklo hadr!
- David LoraOctober 18, 2010Pequeña opera pero una acustica buena, y la oportunidad de estar muy cerca de los interpretes...
- Jan ChylíkFebruary 12, 2013Skoro se i vyplatí přijít po začátku - posadili nás do lože, ve které jsme byli sami. Přímo nad orchestřištěm/podiem.
- Maruška PechrováJune 20, 2014Nejkrásnější zážitek je z první řady. Nejhezčí opera je Nabucco. Nejvtipnejsi Lazebnik Sevillský.
- Martin HejdukMay 29, 2014Super místo na odreagování a pro návštěvu operního představení lepší než národní divadlo!
- Jan BredlSeptember 13, 2012Navrhuji veřejně lynčovat burany, co si do opery vezmou barevné tenisky a tričko s hardrock cafe potiskem.
- Ondra KovářDecember 7, 2014Nádherná budova a interiéry. Moc krásný balet Romeo a Julie.
- Patrik JíraJune 16, 2013Nepijte vic jak sklenku na pauzu, pri baletu je totiz prestavek vic!
- Štěpán ŠpringlApril 15, 2012Vždy mě zaráží idioti fotící ze vzdálenosti 50m s bleskem...
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Address | Wilsonova 4, 110 00 Praha 1, Prague |
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Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
Coordinates | Coordinates: 50°04′50″N14°25′58″E / 50.08056°N 14.43278°E |
Owner | Ministry of Culture |
Capacity | 1041 |
Construction | |
Opened | 5 January 1888 |
Rebuilt | 1960 |
Architect | Fellner & Helmer |
Website | |
http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/en/state-opera |
The State Opera (Czech: Státní opera), is an opera house in Prague, Czech Republic. It is part of the National Theatre of the Czech Republic, founded by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in 1992. The theatre itself originally opened in 1888 as the New German Theatre and from 1949 to 1989 it was known as the Smetana Theatre. More recently it was renamed the Prague State Opera. Currently it is home to approximately 300 performances a year.
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History[edit]
New German Theatre[edit]
The auditorium.
Ceiling detail.
The history of the theatre currently known as the Prague State Opera dates back to the late 19th Century. While often overshadowed by the more prominent National Theatre of Prague, the company has its own distinct history. The birth of a magnificent Czech Theatre, the National Theatre, in 1883 indirectly created a longing among the Prague German community for a German-speaking opera house of its own. At that time the Czech lands were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and there was a large German minority living in Prague. On 4 February 1883 the Deutscher Theaterverein was founded with the goal of raising funds for the new theatre. The plans were developed by the well-known Viennese firm Fellner & Helmer along with Karl Hasenauer, architect of the Burgtheater in Vienna. The resulting Neues deutsches Theater (New German Theatre) was designed by the Prague architect Alfons Wertmüller and built within 20 months. With its spacious auditorium and elaborate neo-rococo décor, the theater was one of the most beautiful in Europe.
Performances commenced on 5 January 1888 with Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The first director became Angelo Neumann, who brought there distinguished musicians and set high artistic standards so that the Theatre reached soon international recognition. Neumann's successors were Heinrich Teweles, Leopold Kramer, Robert Volkner, Paul Eger, and Pavel Ludikar. Artists associated with the theatre in its first phase included Kurt Adler (Conductor), Alexander Zemlinsky, Georg Széll, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Alfred Piccaver, Hans Hotter, Kurt Baum, and Wilhelm Elsner. Guest artists included Nellie Melba, Enrico Caruso, Emma Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Selma Kurz, Maria Jeritza, Richard Tauber and Leo Slezak.
Nazi era[edit]
In the 1930s, with the growing Nazi threat, the New German Theatre in Prague was among the bastions of democracy, serving as a refuge for artists fleeing from Germany. Political developments shortly before signing of the Munich Agreement along with financial problems however led the German Theatre Association to close the theatre in September 1938.
The Czechoslovak state expressed an interest in the building but the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939 and establishment of the 'Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia' thwarted its plans. Under the new title Deutsches Opernhaus (German Opera House), the theatre served for political assemblies of the Nazi Party, and for the occasional guest presentations by ensembles from the Reich.
Theatre of the Fifth of May[edit]
A radical change came in May 1945 following the fall of the Nazi-led government. A group of Czech artists headed by Alois Hába, Václav Kašlík, and Antonín Kurš founded the Theatre of the Fifth of May in the former German Opera House. For the first time the theatre became a home for Czech, rather than German opera. The first performance was of Bedřich Smetana's Brandenburgers in Bohemia on 4 September 1945. The artistic agenda of the new ensemble strove to create an avant-garde theatre that would serve as an alternative to the more conservative National Theatre. A striking new theatrical production of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann on 29 August 1946 and a non-traditional staging of the previously-untouchable Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, were followed by Alois Hába's quarter-tone opera Mother, Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery, and others. The theatre's ground-breaking productions aroused attention on the part of the public and media including acclaim from abroad. Unfortunately, the success of the Grand Opera of the Fifth of May began to create unwanted competition for the National Theatre. Starting with the 1948-49 season, by government decree the Grand Opera was incorporated into the National Theatre. Thus the second significant creative period of the theatre ended after only three seasons.
Smetana Theatre[edit]
In November 1949, the building was renamed the Smetana Theatre, now functioning as a second house of the National Theatre under the Czech Communist Party government. Given the stage facilities, it was suitable for large-scale works from the worldwide operatic repertoire. Ballet was given a prominent place. Opera productions mounted at the Smetana Theatre could moreover enlist the services of all soloists, conductors and directors. However, the organizational division of the productions often gave rise to immense operational difficulties.
The repertoire provided for productions of Czech contemporary operas, but the works of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček were not neglected. However, the standard repertoire was formed out of the major and minor works from the world's operatic literature and quite a few productions met with international acclaim.
Due to its large stage facilities, the Smetana Theatre was frequently used by international opera, ballet and drama companies invited to Prague for guest performances. Among these were a series of six performance by the Bolshoi Theatre (May 23–28, 1973) and two performances by the Vienna State Opera of Richard Strauss´s Ariadne auf Naxos, conducted by Karl Böhm with Edita Gruberova as Zerbinetta (25 and 27 April 1979).
Prague State Opera[edit]
After the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, efforts to regain independence for the Smetana Theatre were crowned with success and on 1 April the Prague State Opera was established there and the theatre was renamed once again. Karel Drgáč became its first director. He enlarged the repertoire by further key works of the world opera literature. What earned him an unambiguous critical praise, though, was most notably his systematic cultivation of the legacy of 20th century production (Alexander Zemlinsky, Hans Krása, Gottfried von Einem). The new style of work, and the much-stressed orientation toward the traditions of the New German Theatre were not always well received. Thus Drgáč had to fight a series of battles to win the war for the State Opera's existence. And meanwhile he lost his own battle, when upon expiration of his three-year term the mezzo-soprano Eva Randová emerged victorious from the competition held in 1995 for the post of director. However, not even a singer who had experience in the most prestigious Theatres of the world could avoid later criticism of her manner of managing the Theatre. Her successor, Daniel Dvořák, in many ways continued in the trend of Karel Drgáč. He understood the Prague State Opera as a Theatre that needed to be incorporated into the European context, and opera as a genre whose development needed to be helped through support of new works. During his four seasons (1998–2002) Prague had the opportunity to experience an unprecedented number of world premieres.
After Dvořák left his post to take over as the Director of the National Theatre of Prague, the Czech Minister of Culture appointed Jaroslav Vocelka to head the Prague State Opera. Previously its managing director, Vocelka's long experience in opera administration allowed a smooth transition for the company. The Prague State Opera maintains a policy of progressive programming. New productions of Scott Joplin´s Treemonisha; Ruggero Leoncavallo's La bohème; Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland; and Leonard Bernstein's Candide have all been key works in the house's program-building policy. Vocelka has also continued a tradition of staging benefit concerts for many charitable and humanitarian concerns and has made the theatre available for cultural and social events.
In 2003, the opera's ballet corps merged with the noted Prague Chamber Ballet company to create the Prague State Opera Ballet.
Archives[edit]
An important part of the Prague State Opera's operation is its Documentation Centre. Apart from keeping systematic archival records of the theatre's activities, it has focused on the reconstruction of the lost archives of the New German Theatre. In 2004, the Prague State Opera published, with the Slovart publishing company, a book on its history, The Prague State Opera: A History of the Theatre in Pictures and Dates. The book, with texts in Czech, English and German, documents the history of the opera house from the New German Theatre to the present. Drawing material from a wide array of sources, both domestic and international, the publication grouped together an invaluable literary and photographic archive, including a number of documents which were published for the first time.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Further reading
- Tomáš Vrbka: Státní opera Praha. Historie divadla v obrazech a datech 1888-2003 / The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates 1888-2003 Slovart, Praha 2004, ISBN80-239-2831-7[1]
External links[edit]
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