Juliusz Słowacki Theatre
In Juliusz Słowacki Theatre once stood at 1 Świętego Ducha Square, a 19th-century Eclectic opera house designed by Jan Zawiejski and erected after the demolition of an earlier Holy Spirit complex. The site had held a 14th-century church and monastery of the “Duchacy,” the Order of the Holy Ghost—whose Polish male branch was secularized in 1783 and converted into a residential building. Kraków’s city council decided to demolish it in 1886, and the church was dismantled in May 1892, prompting painter Jan Matejko’s vow that he would never exhibit his paintings in Kraków again. The new theatre opened on 21 October 1893, modeled partly on European exemplars such as the Palais Garnier in Paris and noted for being the first building in Kraków equipped with electric light. It was initially the Municipal Theatre, but in 1909 it took the name of Romantic poet and playwright Juliusz Słowacki. …
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