Grand Theatre - Polish National Opera [Warsaw]
type: Item
label: Teatr Wielki @nl
label: Velké divadlo @cs
label: Grand Theatre @it
label: Gran Teatro Wielki @es
description: Theatre building in Warsaw, Poland
description: operagebouw in Polen @nl
alternative label: Grand Theatre - Polish National Opera
EUTA building identifier: 228
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Poland
GPS: Point(21.0108 52.2433)
opening date: 1833-02-24T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 140043
Internal image: Teatr Wielki w Warszawie Sala Moniuszki 2016.jpg
Capacity: 2000
demolished: 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
Web: www.teatrwielki.pl
architectural style: neoclassicism
City: Warsaw
Wikidata instance: Q153562
Wikidata source: Q118582866
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q191235
Carthalia ID: 609
Modern Opera Houses index: III. p. 4.
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1825-1833 by Antonio Corazzi. Opened 24 Feb 1833 with Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. The complex housed the Teatr Wielki [Great Theatre], the Teatr Narodowy [National (Drama) Theatre], and the Teatr Nowy [New Theatre] (formerly Sale Redutowe). Various rebuildings. 1939 burnt out during the German siege of Warszawa. 1944 further damages during the uprising against the German occupation. 1949 right wing rebuilt as national theatre. Until 1965, restoration of the entire complex by Bohdan Pniewski. Re-opened 20 Nov 1965. Currently, the complex houses theatres for opera (1900 seats) and drama, a ballet school, an opera studio, and the Polish Theatre Museum.