Staatstheater Braunschweig

Staatstheater Braunschweig
(State Theatre of Brunswick)
	Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt
	"Great House" of Staatstheater with Cimiotti Fountain
Address	Braunschweig; Germany
Owner	State of Lower Saxony
Designation	Listed Kulturdenkmal
Capacity	Großes Haus: 954; Kleines Haus: 297
Construction
Opened	1690 (Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt); 1861 (Staatstheater Braunschweig)
Rebuilt	1859, Carl Wolf / Heinrich Ahlburg; 1945
Architect	Carl Wolf / Heinrich Ahlburg
Website
	http://www.staatstheater-braunschweig.de/

The Staatstheater Braunschweig is a theatre company and opera house in Braunschweig, Germany, presenting and producing music theatre (opera, operetta, musical), Tanztheater, theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences and concerts.

The Staatstheater Braunschweig is owned by the State of Lower Saxony.

History

The earliest incarnation of the Staatstheater Braunschweig was the Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig, founded in 1690 by Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Theatre works such as Emilia Galotti by Lessing and Goethe's Faust had their first openings in Braunschweig.[1]

1991-93: Hans Peter Doll
1993-94: Jürgen Flügge
1995-97: Executive directors: Brigitte Fassbaender, Philippe Auguin, Tatjana Rese
1997-2010: Wolfgang Gropper
2010-2015: Joachim Klement
2010-current: Dagmar Schlingmann

Camerer; Garzmann; Pingel; Schuegraf (1996). Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon (in German) (4th ed.). p. 215.

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