Margravial Opera House
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🇩🇪 Bayreuth | Where Baroque Art Meets Hidden Gems
Lily HarrisLily Harris
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German Opera House 🎵
BiancaBianca
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📍Margravial Opera House: World Heritage & Museum in Bayreuth 🇩🇪 The Margravial Opera House is the best-preserved example of a free-standing baroque court theater. The model were the largest opera houses of the time in Vienna and Dresden. As a unique monument of the festival and music culture of the 18th century. In the 19th century, it was entered into the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 2012. #paolatravell #germany #visitgermany #barocco #bayreuth #magravialoperahouse #markgräflichesopernhaus #bavaria #bayern #schlossbayern #paolatravell
paolatravellpaolatravell
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According to its information panels the Margrave Opera (Markgräfliches Opernhaus) "is the best preserved example of a free-standing Baroque court theatre. As a unique monument of 18th-century festival and music culture it was inscribed by UNESCO in the World Heritage List in 2012". It was built in 1748 under by the request of Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (daughter of the Prussian king and beloved sister of Frederick the Great) for the wedding of her daughter the Bayreuth princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie and Duke Carl Eugen of Wiirttemberg. While the interior was designed by the Italian architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena and executed by his own son Carlo Galli Bibiena, the facade was finished in 1750 and it is the work of the Bayreuth's court architect Joseph Saint-Pierre. It has a wooden interior designed in an Italian Late Baroque style and a stage with a great depth of 27 metres (89 ft). It was closed for extensive refurbishment between October 2012 and April 2018.
Maricha MartinezSosaMaricha MartinezSosa
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What can I say... Amazing. A well-preserved opera house that will knock you out when you see it by yourselves. When you enter the building, it starts to feel like you traveled back in time. All decorations, each detail, are astonishing. I couldn't believe what I witnessed. They once in a year,in September, if I'm not mistaken, carry out the concerts in baroque style with appropriate costumes on. Imagine the atmosphere, well-dressed people, in an original opera house, fully decorated with baroque elements, you start to feel like a royalty, lol. Even though the tickets to the concert are hella expensive, you still can just buy an entrance ticket for 8 euro and enjoy the hall. It's worth every penny. Don't forget ,there's also a second floor with a modern exhibition and some interactive stuff. You'll be amazed by it.
VinumVinum
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Must see! Booked the English visit on a Thursday and it was perfect. Lucked out and was the only person. Plenty of parking houses very near. I used the Rathaus parking garage and had a 2-3 minute walk. The tour is an audio visual experience while seated in the theater. It is informative, I believe 10 or 15 minutes in German with easy to read English subtitles. Samples of opera are played to give you a sense of what a performance would be like. The ooerahouse itself is not large but there is so much elegance packed into it you just have to see it. Would plan for 45 minutes. Also, convienent and clean public restroom directly across from operahouse.
william lesliewilliam leslie
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Nearby Attractions Of Margravial Opera House
Neues Schloss
Wahnfried
Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken
Maisel's Bier-Erlebniswelt
Liebesbier Urban Art Hotel
Stadtbad Bayreuth
Bayreuther Katakomben
Richard Wagner Museum
Stadtkirche
Musée Richard Wagner

Neues Schloss
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Wahnfried
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Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken
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Maisel's Bier-Erlebniswelt
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Nearby Restaurants Of Margravial Opera House
Oskar - Das Wirtshaus am Markt
Liebesbier - Urban Art Hotel, Restaurant & Bar
L'Osteria Bayreuth
Ganesha Bayreuth indisches Restaurant
Wagaya Bayreuth
Enchilada Bayreuth
Irish Pub Dubliner Bayreuth
Plaka Restaurant
Café Kraftraum
RoxyBurger Finest Handmade

Oskar - Das Wirtshaus am Markt
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Liebesbier - Urban Art Hotel, Restaurant & Bar
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L'Osteria Bayreuth
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Basic Info
Address
Opernstraße 14, 95444 Bayreuth, Germany
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+49 921 7596922
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Website
schloesser.bayern.de
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The Margravial Opera House is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany. Built between 1745 and 1750, it is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and has been extensively restored.
attractions: Neues Schloss, Wahnfried, Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken, Maisel's Bier-Erlebniswelt, Liebesbier Urban Art Hotel, Stadtbad Bayreuth, Bayreuther Katakomben, Richard Wagner Museum, Stadtkirche, Musée Richard Wagner, restaurants: Oskar - Das Wirtshaus am Markt, Liebesbier - Urban Art Hotel, Restaurant & Bar, L'Osteria Bayreuth, Ganesha Bayreuth indisches Restaurant, Wagaya Bayreuth, Enchilada Bayreuth, Irish Pub Dubliner Bayreuth, Plaka Restaurant, Café Kraftraum, RoxyBurger Finest Handmade

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