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The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna . It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31 (at that time called Jägerzeile).

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5-494: 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

10-404: 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 facade was, however, still remarkably intact after the war. In 1951 it was demolished, with neighbouring building which had not been damaged in the war. Nowadays, the site

15-582: Is host to the "Galaxy"-building. A few years ago there was a plaque in Praterstraße, marking the former location of the theatre, but this is gone too now. Most of the information in this article is taken from the German Misplaced Pages article . 48°12′54″N 16°23′02″E  /  48.215°N 16.384°E  / 48.215; 16.384 Theater in der Leopoldstadt The Theater in der Leopoldstadt (also: Leopoldstädter Theater )

20-598: The Vienna State Opera . The theatre was opened under the name Carltheater in the same year, 1847. Many Alt-Wiener Volkstheater  [ de ] 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

25-774: Was an opera house in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna, founded in 1781 by Karl von Marinelli , following the Schauspielfreiheit (ending of the court's monopoly on entertainment) by Joseph II in 1776. The 19th-century summer stage called the Thaliatheater was also managed by the Leopoldstadt. In its early years, the theatre staged Singspiele and Possen mit Gesang , notably by the theatre's Kapellmeister Wenzel Müller and his assistant Ferdinand Kauer . The dramatist Ferdinand Raimund worked with

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