Kärntnertortheater

Kärntnertortheater eller Theater am Kärntnertor, var en teater i Wien.

Teatern uppfördes 1709 och förstördes i en brand 1761, men återuppfördes och invigdes två år senare. 1861 påbörjades byggandet av Wiener Staatsoper på en angränsande tomt och den stod färdig 1869. Året därpå, 1870, revs den gamla teatern.

Till höjdpunkterna i teaterns historia hör den konsert som Beethoven anordnade den 7 maj 1824 och som avslutades med uruppförandet av den nionde symfonin.

First performances of operas and other works

During its heyday several composers conducted the theatre orchestra, including the young Franz Lachner and Ferdinando Paer.

1753 (perhaps 1751) Der krumme Teufel (The Lame Devil), a comic opera by the young Joseph Haydn, now lost, that established his early reputation
1774 (April 4): Thamos, König in Ägypten, a play by Tobias Philipp, Baron von Gebler, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1787 (March 7) Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503
1795 (October 14): Palmira, regina di Persia by Antonio Salieri
1799 (January 3): Falstaff by Antonio Salieri
1799 (February 28): Camilla by Ferdinando Paer
1799 (July 12): Il morto vivo by Ferdinando Paer
1800 (June 2): Cesare in Farmacusa by Antonio Salieri
1800 (September 2): Ginevra degli Almieri by Ferdinando Paer
1800 (October 22): L'Angiolina by Antonio Salieri
1800 (December 18): Poche ma buone by Ferdinando Paer
1801 (June 6): Achille by Ferdinando Paer
1814 (May 23): Fidelio (final version as performed today) by Ludwig van Beethoven
1821 (March 7): Franz Schubert's song "Der Erlkönig"
1822 (December 4): Libussa by Conradin Kreutzer
1823 (October 25): Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber
1824 (May 7): Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
1829 (August 11): The Viennese début as pianist of Frédéric Chopin
1837 (March 9): Das Nachtlager in Granada (second version with recitatives) by Conradin Kreutzer
1842 (May 19): Linda di Chamounix by Gaetano Donizetti
1843 (June 5): Maria di Rohan by Gaetano Donizetti
1844 (February 3): Die Heimkehr des Verbannten by Otto Nicolai
1845 (November 13): Dom Sébastien (revised version) by Gaetano Donizetti
1845 (December 20): Der Tempelritter by Otto Nicolai
1847 (November 25): Martha by Friedrich von Flotow
1864 (February 4): Die Rheinnixen (Les Fées du Rhin) by Jacques Offenbach

Litteratur

Eleonore Schenk: Die Anfänge des Wiener Kärntnertortheaters (1710 bis 1748). Avhandling, Wien 1969.
Gustav Zechmeister: Die Wiener Theater nächst der Burg und nächst dem Kärntnerthor von 1747 bis 1776. Böhlau, Wien 1971.