Cuvilliés Theatre
The Cuvilliés Theatre—Cuvilliés-Theater, also known as the Old Residence Theatre (Altes Residenztheater)—begins its story with a court decision after disaster. After a fire in Munich’s St. George’s Hall, Elector of Bavaria Maximilian III Joseph (reigned 1745 to 1777) commissioned a new court theatre outside the palace. Built from 1751 to 1753, it was created in Rococo style by François de Cuvilliés, with carving supervised by Johann Baptist Straub. Space pressures soon reshaped the complex: in 1811 the National Theatre Munich was built next to the Residence Theatre, and later—when the building became a depot—interior decoration was removed under King Ludwig I (reigned 1825 to 1848). …
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