The Residenz, the perfect combination of rococo style and the amazing history of the Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, part III
Hello travelers
For those of you who follow my travel blogs, this blog is the third in The Residenz trilogy in downtown Munich, Germany.
For those of you who are just now getting here, we visited an amazing sightseeing in the center of Munich that we divided into three parts, The Residenz, the stunning Royal Residence in the heart of Munich (Bavaria), Part.I(if you want to visit it here), The Residenz, let's discover a thousand years of history in one place, The Treasury, part. II(if you want to browse it you can do it here), and today we are going to visit Cuvilliés Theatre.
We visited Munich in August of 2023, everything was very crowded because we were in high tourist season, so if you also want to visit this place arm yourself with patience, it is probably not the same in the off-season.
You have to know that you can see all these sights by buying a combined ticket (as we did, 17euro/person) or you can visit just one that attracts you more, and the ticket for this sight alone costs 5euro/person, now you decide how you will visit this place, but I come with a tip to allocate at least 4 hours here and visit them all, they are absolutely spectacular.
Dear visitors let's start visiting Cuvilliés Theatre which is also known as Altes Residenztheater, here we will see not only a historical monument but a proof of resistance in times of war.
If the first two sights were in the same building in this case to get to Cuvilliés Theatre we had to enter another building, don't worry you have information boards everywhere, and if you have the audio guide with you the experience will be fantastic.
Let's see where in 1781 the premiere of an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart took place, interesting, it is.
In order to make the experience even more interesting I will leave you some information below.
What is now called the Cuvilliés Theatre, after its architect, François Cuvilliés the Elder, consists of the auditorium of a theatre that Elector Maximilian Joseph III built in 1751-55 as his ‘new opera house’. Originally reserved exclusively for members of court, the theatre lay in close proximity to the Residence. Many lavish opera productions were mounted here, including the first performances of Mozart's Idomeneo, in 1781.
The building housing the theatre was destroyed on 18 March 1944. Its place on the site between the Royal Palace of the Residence and the Nationaltheater on Max-Joseph-Platz was taken by the New Residence Theatre, erected from 1945 to 1951.
The painted wood carvings and other tier fittings of the Cuvilliés Theatre had been removed to safety in 1943 and they are all that survive of the original theatre. In 1956 they were presented to the Bavarian Administration of State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, which restored them over the next two years and reassembled them in a new building near the Apothecary Court in the Residence. The Cuvilliés Theatre – also known as the Old Residence Theatre, to distinguish it from the new, post-war building – is now reached from the Fountain Court.
Nothing remains of the ceiling painting by Johann Baptist Zimmermann that originally graced the auditorium, but the elaborate carved decoration of the tiers, with its figures, floral ornament and patterning, makes the Cuvilliés Theatre not only a major work of Bavarian Rococo, but a Gesamtkunstwerk with few equals in Europe.
My dear visitors, here we are at the end of the trilogy in which I shared with you a special place in Munich, I hope you like it and would be very happy if some of my travel blogs convinced you to visit this place.
THE END!
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