The Vienna Folk Opera , also Volksoper ( German: Volksoper Wien ) - the second opera house in Vienna after the Vienna Opera . For the season from September to July, the theater gives about three hundred performances. Designed for 1473 seats, it can additionally accommodate 102 spectators in standing places. Volksoper's repertoire has traditionally been associated with operetta and opera in German. Nowadays, operas , operettas , singspils, musicals and ballets are staged on its stage.
History
The theater was built in 1898 . Volksoper was originally named the City Theater of the Emperor’s Jubilee ( German: Kaiser-Jubiläums-Stadttheater ) in honor of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I and was intended only for stage plays , but in 1903 operas and operettas began to be staged.
In 1906, the conductor Alexander Tsemlinsky became the first bandmaster . The first productions of Tosca and Salome took place in 1907 and 1910 . respectively. World-famous opera singers Maria Yeritsa and Richard Tauber performed here . During the First World War, Volksoper became the second most popular opera house in Vienna, but in 1929 changed its repertoire, giving preference to vaudeville . After World War II, the theater turned into an additional stage for productions of the Vienna State Opera , destroyed during the hostilities. In 1955, the Vienna folk opera regained its original role and again took up the production of operas, operettas and musicals. In 1983, Volksoper toured the USSR [1] . In Moscow, performances were held at the premises of the Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko The program included operettas by I. Strauss “The Bat” , F. Lehar “The Merry Widow” , I. Kalman “The Queen of the Chardash” (“Silva”), and also a gala concert. Theater Director (since September 2007) Robert Meyer, Artistic Director - Dietmar Strasser, Principal Conductor (as of April 2016) no.
For decades, the most important feature of the theater’s patriotic policy was the performance of musical and theatrical compositions in German, foreign languages - in German translation (hence the name Volksoper , lit. - folk opera ). In the 21st century, the practice of performing foreign-language compositions, especially American musicals, in the original language is gradually introduced, and often conversational dialogues in German alternate with English in vocal parts.
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