Palace Theatre in Valtice [Valtice]
Zámecké divadlo Valtice
Theatre building in Valtice, Czech Republic, opened in 1700
theater in Valtice
Palace Theatre in Valtice
No machinery yet? At least partial picture about the theatre appearance is provided by the photographs, made before theatre destruction in 1940s, and orientation of the hall and fragments of wooden constructions from 1963. Rectangular hall has a size of 25 × 13 m, the height of the brickwork is today circa 9 m. The stage occupied roughly 17 m of this area, orchestra pit, separated from the stage by wooden partition with doors on sides, 2 m and auditorium residual 6 m. The hall floor sloped in the direction from auditorium of the area, where the space below the stage was interrupted by a passage to Barvířská ulice.
Architects Mikuláš Hulec and Daniel Špička from Prague association CORA (Centrum pro ochranu a restaurování architektury – Centre for protection and restoration of architecture) work at the Valtice Theatre restoration. Within the project Baroque and Classicist theatres, being realized thanks to the support of Packard Humanities Institute (USA), a project of future theatre renovation came into existence in 2006. It was possible to design a theatre reconstruction, which should be as close to the original appearance as possible, on the basis of an analysis of historical photographs, a surveying from 1963 and a research of another preserved theatres from 18th century. The reconstruction project has all the necessary permits today (March 2009) and the funding possibilities are being examined.