Croatian National Theatre [Varaždin]
type: Item
label: Teatro nazionale croato di Varaždin @it
description: Theatre building in Varaždin, Croatia
description: theater in Varaždin @nl
alternative label: Croatian National Theatre
EUTA building identifier: 1455
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Croatia
City: Varaždin
GPS: Point(16.3372 46.3057)
Wikidata source: Q18451426
opening date: 1873-11-25T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Ulica Augusta Cesarca 14, 42000 Varaždin
Web: www.hnkvz.hr
architect: Ferdinand Fellner
architect: Hermann Helmer
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 422
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1871-1873 as Stadttheater und Redoute/Gradsko Kazalište for the city of Varaždin by Ferdinand Fellner & Hermann Helmer. Opened 25 Sep 1873 with Ivan Kukuljevicá-Sakcinskoga's Poturica. The complex includes a theatre, a ballroom, and a café and restaurant. Later alterations by Alexander Freudenreich. Conversion of the café and restaurant into a public library. In the 1980s, extension of the orchestra pit and alterations of interior decoration to modern designs. Ca. 600 seats.