Romanian National Opera, Timișoara

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Romanian National Opera in Timișoara
Opera Națională Română din Timișoara
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Exterior of the Opera House
General information
Architectural styleRenaissance Revival (1875-1920)
Romanian Revival (1928-present)
Town or cityTimișoara
CountryRomania
Construction started1871
Completed1875
Design and construction
ArchitectFerdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer (1871)
Duiliu Marcu (1923)
Other information
Seating capacity686
The Opera House at night

The Romanian National Opera, Timișoara (Romanian: Opera Națională Română din Timișoara) is a public opera and ballet institution in Timișoara, Romania. It is one of the national opera companies of Romania. The Opera shares the same building with the  [ro] in Timișoara.

History[]

The first performance at the Timișoara Opera was on 27 April 1875, the inaugural concert being Aida by Giuseppe Verdi.[1]

On April 20, 1880, the building was devastated by a fire. The theatre went bankrupt and was bought by the authorities. Since investments were insufficient, individual funds were needed for reconstruction. The government offered "eternal" property for over twenty lodges, with the right of inheritance. Later, in agreement with the owners, these lodges were redeemed. The reconstruction, completed in 1882, kept the original Neo-Renaissance style of the façade.

After a second fire, which took place in 1920, only the lateral wings remained intact. In 1923–1928, the reconstruction of the building was made after the plans of the Romanian architect Duiliu Marcu who maintained the original style on the wings and rebuilt the main façade and the performance hall in the Neo-Byzantine style.[2][3]

The building of the National Theatre and Romanian National Opera in Timișoara is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.[4]

On December 20, 1989, during the Romanian Revolution, a crowd of 40,000 gathered in the open space in front of the Opera House. Some managed to enter the building through the rear, and a succession of figures representing factories and ethnic groups delivered speeches from the balcony. From that point, the revolutionaries controlled the opera and surrounding square, although representatives of the Ceaușescu regime briefly continued to hold the county council building.[5]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Istoric | Opera Româna Timișoara". www.ort.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  2. ^ "History of the Timișoara National Opera House". ort.ro. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  3. ^ "Dispută între arhitecți la renovarea Operei din Timișoara" (in Romanian). Europa Liberă România. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  4. ^ "The Romanian Register of Historical Monuments in Timiș County" (PDF). patrimoniu.gov.ro. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  5. ^ Siani-Davies, Peter (2007). The Romanian Revolution of December 1989. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 74–6. ISBN 978-0-801-47389-0.

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Coordinates: 45°45′15″N 21°13′34″E / 45.7543°N 21.2260°E / 45.7543; 21.2260

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