The Antonín Dvořák Theatre ( Czech : Divadlo Antonína Dvořáka ) is an opera house in Ostrava , Czech Republic , which opened in 1907. Since 1919 it has been one of two permanent venues of the National Moravian Silesian Theatre .
5-577: The Neo-baroque building of the theatre was designed by architect Alexander Graf . It was built by the Ostrava company Noe & Storch . The Antonín Dvořák Theatre was the first building in what is now the Czech Republic to use reinforced concrete beams . The interior was designed by sculptors of the company Johann Bock & Son . The sculptures decorating the facade were made by Eduard Smetana and Leopold Kosiga . Drama and Music , two reliefs in
10-694: The 19th century, and are integral to the Beaux-Arts architecture it engendered both in France and abroad. An ebullient sense of European imperialism encouraged an official architecture to reflect it in Britain and France , and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state. There are also number of post-modern buildings with a style that might be called "Baroque", for example
15-497: The late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptures which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not of the original Baroque period. Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the pre-eminent school of architecture in the second half of
20-584: The main foyer of the theatre, were donated by academic sculptor Helena Scholzová ( Helen Zelezny-Scholz ). The Antonín Dvořák Theatre was opened on 28 September 1907, as a German theatre. Up to 1919, the performances were solely in German. Following the World War I , the theatre passed to the hands of Czechoslovak state and became a stage of the National Moravian Silesian Theatre . From 1949,
25-591: The theatre was renamed as the Zdeněk Nejedlý Theatre and in 1990 as the Antonín Dvořák Theatre . This article about an opera house or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Baroque Revival architecture The Baroque Revival , also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of
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