Carltheater

About

The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna. It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31 (at that time called Jägerzeile). It was the successor to the Leopoldstädter Theater. After a series of financial difficulties, that theater had been sold in 1838 to the director, Carl Carl, who continued to run it in parallel to his Theater an der Wien until 1845. Two years later, the building was partially demolished and rebuilt following the plans of architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, who would later design the Vienna State Opera. The theatre was opened under the name Carltheater in the same year, 1847. Many Alt-Wiener Volkstheater pieces by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy premiered here; between 1854 and 1860, Nestroy was the director of the theatre. In subsequent years, many well-known Viennese playwrights wrote pieces for the Carltheater and reinforced its reputation as the favoured opera house for Viennese folk-pieces and operettas. After a rapid changeover of directors in the 20th century, the theatre became unprofitable, and was finally closed in 1929. In 1944, the auditorium of the theatre was almost entirely destroyed in a bomb attack. The artistically valuable...

- Die schlimmen Buben in der Schule, burlesque in one act, by Johann Nestroy, on December 10, 1847.

- Judith und Holofernes, "travesty with song" by Johann Nestroy, on March 13, 1849.

- Tannhäuser, opera pastiche by Johann Nestroy, 1857

- Das Corps der Reche, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on March 5, 1864

- Dinorah, oder die Turnerfahrt nach Hütteldorf, opera parody by Franz von Suppé, on May 4, 1865

- Die schöne Galathee, operetta by Franz von Suppé on 9 September 1865

- Leichte Kavallerie, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on March 21, 1866

- Die Freigeister, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on October 23, 1866

- Banditenstreiche [ de ], operetta by Franz von Suppé, on April 27, 1867

- Die Frau Meisterin, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on January 20, 1868

- Tantalusqualen, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on October 3, 1868

- Isabella, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on November 5, 1869

- Lohengelb, oder Die Jungfrau von Dragant (Tragant), operetta by Franz von Suppé, on November 30, 1870

- Cannebas, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on November 2, 1872

- Fatinitza, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on January 5, 1876

- Prinz Methusalem, comic operetta by Johann Strauss II, on January 3, 1877

- Der Teufel auf Erden, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on January 5, 1878

- Boccaccio, opera by Franz von Suppé, on February 1, 1879

- Donna Juanita, operetta by Franz von Suppé, on February 21, 1880