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

External links[]

• Official Website of Theater Aachen

Coordinates: 50°46′21″N 6°05′14″E / 50.77250°N 6.08722°E / 50.77250; 6.08722

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