The Great Theatre in Warsaw (Polish: Teatr Wielki; now the Great Theatre and Polish National Opera) is a theatre complex and opera company located on historic Theatre Square (Plac Teatralny) in Warsaw, Poland.
The theatre was inaugurated on February 24, 1833, with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
After the building's bombing and near-complete destruction in World War II, the theatre was rebuilt, and the building reopened on Novemb...
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The Great Theatre in Warsaw (Polish: Teatr Wielki; now the Great Theatre and Polish National Opera) is a theatre complex and opera company located on historic Theatre Square (Plac Teatralny) in Warsaw, Poland.
The theatre was inaugurated on February 24, 1833, with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
After the building's bombing and near-complete destruction in World War II, the theatre was rebuilt, and the building reopened on November 19, 1965, after having been closed for over twenty years.
The National Opera features two auditoriums and a museum:
Before the building stand two statues by Jan Szczepkowski, of Wojciech Bogusławski, the father of Polish National Theatre, and of Stanisław Moniuszko, the father of Polish National Opera.
Opera was brought to Poland by future King Władysław IV Vasa within twenty years of the first opera presentations in Florence. In 1628 he invited the first Italian opera company to Warsaw. Upon ascending the Polish throne in 1632, he built a...
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