Karlovy Vary City Theatre [Karlovy Vary]
type: Item
label: Městské divadlo Karlovy Vary @cs
description: Theatre building in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
description: theater in Karlsbad @nl
alternative label: Karlovy Vary City Theatre
EUTA building identifier: 3
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Czech Republic
City: Karlovy Vary
GPS: Point(12.8818 50.2211)
Wikidata source: Q19602464
opening date: 1886-05-15T00:00:00Z
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 99507.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 99508.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 99509.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 99510.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 99511.php
represented in collection: Architecture museum Berlin
architectural style: historicism
architect: Ferdinand Fellner
architect: Hermann Helmer
Redevelopment date: 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
id in List of theatres in Bohemia, 1905: 1| 12
Importance: national or regional importance
Building relation: freestanding building
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
type of operator: resident theatre company
type of operator: Amateur theatre
building purpose: Theatre operation building
Theatre space character: performing arts building
Capacity: 740
Theatres by Javorin (1949) id: 85
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 251
Modern Opera Houses index: III. pp. 24, 25.
Note: Built 1884-1886 as Stadttheater for the city of Karlsbad by Ferdinand Fellner & Hermann Helmer at the site of the demolished theatre of 1787. Opened 15 May 1886 with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. 1910-1912 rebuilding of stage and auditorium. 1928 interior alterations by Artur Payer. 1958-1990 named Divadlo Vítězslava Nezvala in favour of the Czech poet, Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958). 1970-1978 renovation (stucco, painting, curtain). 1994-1999 major renovation. 1996 renovation of the curtain. 850 seats.