Antonín Dvořák Theatre [Ostrava]
type: Item
label: Antonín Dvořáktheater @nl
label: Divadlo Antonína Dvořáka @cs
label: Teatro Antonín Dvořák @it
description: Theatre building in Ostrava, Czech Republic
description: theater in Ostrava @nl
alternative label: Antonín Dvořák Theatre
EUTA building identifier: 77
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Czech Republic
City: Ostrava
GPS: Point(18.2912 49.8325)
Wikidata source: Q3562246
opening date: 1907-09-28T00:00:00Z
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 366543.php
represented in collection: Architecture museum Berlin
Web: www.ndm.cz
architect: Alexander Graf
Redevelopment date: 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Importance: national or regional importance
Building relation: freestanding building
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Preservation state: representative building
type of operator: resident theatre company
type of operator: Amateur theatre
building purpose: Theatre operation building
Theatre space character: performing arts building
Capacity: 944
Theatres by Javorin (1949) id: 157
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 276
Note: Built 1905-1907 by Alexander Graf as Stadttheater for the city of Mährisch-Ostrau. Opened 28 September 1907 with Schubert's ouverture to Rosamunde and Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. Until 1919, used by a German theatre company. Since 1919, used by the Czech company Národní Divadlo Moravskoslezské (National Moravian-Silesian Theatre). 1945 renamed Zemské divadlo (Provincial Theatre). 1949 renamed Divadlo Zdeňka Nejedlého in honour of the Czech musicologist, journalist, and politician, Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878-1962). 1954-1956 rebuilding with façade alteration. 1969-1971 extension by Ivo Klimes. 1990 renamed Divadlo Antonína Dvořáka in honour of the Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904). 1999-2000 renovations. Re-opened 31 Dec 2000. Originally 854 seats, today 531 seats.