Theater Aachen
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Theater Aachen
Theater Aachen is a theatre in Aachen, Germany. It is the principal venue in that city for operas, musical theatre and plays. It is the home of the . Construction on the original theatre began in 1822 and it opened on 15 May 1825. A bomb attack on 14 July 1943 destroyed the first theatre, and the current structure was inaugurated on 23 December 1951 with a performance of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Conductors[]
The conductors of the theatre have also been Generalmusikdirektor of Aachen:
- 1920–1935 Peter Raabe
- 1935–1942 Herbert von Karajan
- 1942–1944 Paul van Kempen
- 1946–1953
- 1953–1958 Wolfgang Sawallisch
- 1958–1962 Hans Walter Kämpfel
- 1962–1974 Wolfgang Trommer
- 1974–1983
- 1984–1990
- 1990–1992
- 1993–1996
- 1997–2002
- 2002–2012 Marcus Bosch
- 2012–2017
- 2017–2018
- since 2018 Christopher Ward
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Coordinates: 50°46′21″N 6°05′14″E / 50.77250°N 6.08722°E
Categories:
- Aachen
- Opera houses in Germany
- Theatres in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Theatres completed in 1825
- Music venues completed in 1825
- Opera structure stubs