Theater Erfurt

Theater Erfurt
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General information
Location	Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
Opened	2003
Website
	www.theater-erfurt.de

The Theater Erfurt is a German municipal theatre located in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. The main stage is in a building in the Brühlervorstadt, completed in 2003. The theatre offers musical theatre and concerts, played by the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt. Ballet and plays are offered by guest performances. The company organizes the annual open air festival DomStufen. The theatre's current Generalintendant, Guy Montavon, has held the post since 2002.

Stages[]

The main venue is in a new house, Großes Haus. The large hall seats 840 visitors, a Studio 200 visitors, which can be reduces as Salon im Studio for events for up to 100 people. The courtyard holds the stage Theatrium. Events can also be held in the rehearsal hall for the orchestra. The festival DomStufen takes place on the Domplatz (Cathedral Square) of Erfurt, seating up to 2000 spectators. The company also holds events at the Rathaus (Town Hall) and the Thomaskirche.

Premieres[]

Montavon has initiated a program of one premiere per season, including:

Title	Composer	Date
[de]	Stanley Walden	21 December 2002
[de]	Peter Aderhold	14 September 2003
[de]	Cong Su	19 March 2005
[de]		6 May 2005
Waiting for the Barbarians	Philip Glass	10 September 2005
[de]	Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini	9 September 2006
[de]	Flavio Testi	8 September 2007
[de]	Gisle Kverndokk	5 Juli 2008
[de]	Franz Hummel	8 November 2008
[de]	Jeffrey Ching	29 November 2009
[de]	Johanna Doderer	31 October 2010
Lady Magnesia	Mieczysław Weinberg	2 Februar 2012
[de]	E. T. A. Hoffmann	28 April 2012
[de]		2 February 2013
[de]		10 July 2014
[de]	François Fayt	29 November 2014

Revivals[]

Another focus of the program are revivals of forgotten operas, including:

Title	Composer	Date
Messidor	Alfred Bruneau	2005
Fernand Cortez	Gaspare Spontini	2006
Fedra	Ildebrando Pizzetti	2008
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn	Karl Reinthaler	2009
Nana	Manfred Gurlitt	2010
[de]	[de]	2011
Die Zauberin	Peter Tschaikowsky	2011
I Medici	Ruggero Leoncavallo	2013
Sigurd	Ernest Reyer	2015 (German premiere)

General Music Directors (Generalmusikdirektoren)[]

Balduin Zimmermann (1894–1904)
[de] (1905)
Camillo Hildebrand (1909–1910)
Paul Wolff (1911)
Toni Hoff (1912)
Paul Weißleder (1913)
Richard Fitsch (1915–1919)
Gustav Großmann (1920–1923)
Franz Jung (1924–1952)
[de] (1953–1956)
Walter König (1957)
[de] (1958–1988)
[de] (1989–1999)
[de] (2000–2012)
Joana Mallwitz (2014–2018)
Myron Michailidis (2018–present)^[1]

In 2014, Joana Mallwitz was the first woman conductor named to the post of Generalmusikdirektorin (GMD) in the institution's history^[2] and at the time of her advent to the post, the youngest GMD of a German opera house.^[3] She concluded her Erfurt tenure at the close of the 2017-2018 season.^[4]

The current interim GMD of the company is Myron Michailidis, since 2018. Michailidis is scheduled to stand down as GMD in 2022.^[5] In July 2021, the company announced the appointment of Alexander Prior as its next GMD, effective with the 2022-2023 season.^[6]