Prinzregententheater

You’re in front of the Prinzregententheater—an Art Nouveau opera house on Prinzregentenplatz that opened in Munich on 21 August 1901. The project was initiated by Ernst von Possart and designed by Max Littmann, built as a festival hall for Richard Wagner’s operas near the site of an earlier Ludwig II scheme that had failed a few decades earlier. The theatre was named for Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, and it was shaped to Wagner’s specifications—much like the Bayreuth Festspielhaus—though the original loges have since been replaced by an amphitheatre arrangement. During World War II, after the Nationaltheater was destroyed, it became home to the Bavarian State Opera from 1944 to 1963, with war damage not repaired until 1958. …

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