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Former Summer Theatre, Hungarian State Theatre and Opera

Kolozsvári Magyar Opera
Former Summer Theatre, Hungarian State Theatre and Opera
Kolozsvári Magyar Opera
Original function:
theatre/opera
Current function:
theatre/opera
Settlement:
Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca
Address:
Strada Emil Isac 26-28
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7724284257, 23.5840141432
Google map:
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Now transformed in socialist style.

History

The theatre was built between 1909 and 1910 at the expense of Janovics Jenő, based on the designs of the architects Márkus Géza and Spiegel Frigyes from Budapest in eclectic style. It was built on the site of an older wooden building, also a theatre, built in 1874. Between 1959 and 1961 the theatre was rebuilt to its present form, based on designs by Ioan Paiu and Sóvágó János. When the occupying Romanians expropriated the Hungarian National Theatre in 1919, the Hungarian theatre company was forced to move here.

Source:  muemlekem.hu
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