National Dance Theatre [Budapest]
type: Item
label: Chiesa carmelitana di Buda @it
label: National Dance Theatre
description: Theatre building in Budapest, Hungary
description: theater in Hongarije @nl
EUTA building identifier: 190
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Hungary
City: Budapest
GPS: Point(19.0375 47.4983)
Wikidata source: Q1413763
opening date: 1787-10-16T00:00:00Z
Web: www.dancetheatre.hu
architect: Wolfgang von Kempelen
Redevelopment date: 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q230508
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 142947
Carthalia ID: 403
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1786 by Wolfgang von Kempelen, by converting a former Carmlite Church (built 1725-1736). Opened 17 Oct 1787 as Deutsches Theater [German Theatre]. First performance in Hungarian on 25 Oct 1790. From 1870, operated as chamber theatre of the Hungarian National Theatre. Closed 1925. Severely damaged by warfare in 1944. 1977 rebuilding, re-opened as Varszínház (Fortress Theatre). Closed 2014.
Burnt down date: 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
closure date: 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z