Klagenfurt Municipal Theatre
Art nouveau theatre of 1910 by Fellner and Helmer, Carinthia's house for drama, opera and concerts.
Klagenfurt's theatre was built between 1908 and 1910 by the Viennese office of Fellner and Helmer, who by then had put up dozens of theatres across the Habsburg lands. It replaced an older house and was opened to mark the sixtieth jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph I, from which it took its first name, Kaiser Franz Joseph I. Jubiläumstheater. Unlike the firm's earlier neo-baroque houses it was dressed in art nouveau, with a curved gable, sgraffito decoration and figures of the muses on the front.
The auditorium was altered during renovations in the 1960s and again between 1996 and 1998, when the stage machinery and foyers were modernised. The theatre is run jointly by the city, the province of Carinthia and the federal government, and its repertoire covers drama, opera, operetta, musicals and dance. The Kärntner Sinfonieorchester plays in the pit and gives its symphony and chamber concerts in the house.
Highlights
- Art nouveau front of 1910 with figures of the muses
- Built by Fellner and Helmer for the imperial jubilee
- Drama, opera, operetta and dance in one repertory house
- Concerts by the Kärntner Sinfonieorchester in the theatre and foyer
