Comediehuset [Gothenburg, SV]
type: Item
label: Comediehuset
description: Theatre building in Gothenburg, Sweden
description: theater in Zweden @nl
EUTA building identifier: 3143
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Sweden
City: Gothenburg
Wikidata source: Q5151409
opening date: 1779-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Sillgatan
Address: Postgatan
context: The theatre was the only permanent theatre in Gothenburg until 1816.
context: In 1786, the Comedy House was the first theatre in Swedish history to show “The Marriage of Figaro, and in 1787, Shakespeare's play “Hamlet”, much earlier than the theatres in Stockholm.
context: The theatre was first run by Johan von Blanc, then by Gustaf Simson and finally by Lovisa Simson, Sweden's first female theater director, in partnership with first Andreas Widerberg and later Johan Petersson.
context: The theatre also arranged public masquerade balls, concerts, opera and ballet. Foreign opera such as French pantomime artists, Italian opera and English circus artists and other travelling guest artists also performed at the theatre.
GPS: Point(11.9639 57.7076)
closure date: 1833-01-01T00:00:00Z
Burnt down date: 1867-03-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1782-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1819-01-01T00:00:00Z
demolished: 1819-01-01T00:00:00Z
time frame: Baroque
Wikidata instance: Q11635
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Preservation state: extinct building
Preservation state: Disused