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Bayreuth New Palace

Exhibition –
"The Galli Bibienas and the Margravial Opera House"

The focal point of the exhibition is a model of the opera house almost two metres long. The auditorium is reproduced in all its detail, together with some of the 18^th-century stage machinery, none of which has survived.

Original exhibits and copies illustrate the most important aspects of the margravial opera house and its use. Rare documents published on the occasion of the wedding of Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg and Friederike von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, such as a detailed description of the two-week-long festivities which even includes the seating order at table, round off the exhibition.

The Galli Bibiena theatre designers

The Galli Bibienas were active in many European cities although unfortunately only a few of their once much admired creations are still in existence. The interior of the Margravial Opera House, the main work of Guiseppe Galli (1696-1757), is one of these.

After the completion of the opera house, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena's son Carlo remained in Bayreuth for ten years as a successful set builder. The precious original designs in his own hand are today in museums in Russia, Canada and Germany. Highly realistic copies of most of his sketches are displayed in a separate room of the new exhibition so that the splendid productions at the Bayreuth court can be visualized in the place where they were created.

 

 

Auditorium of the Margravial Opera House,
gouache by Gustav Bauernfeind, 1870/80
(Munich, Deutsches Theatermuseum)

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