Austrian National Theatre
At this site stands the Burgtheater—the Austrian National Theatre—whose story begins not with a grand opera house, but with a tennis court built in 1540 in the lower pleasure garden of the Hofburg, after an older ball house was destroyed by fire in 1525. The theatre you associate with Vienna’s cultural life opened on 14 March 1741, created under Empress Maria Theresa, who wanted a theatre beside her palace. By 1776, Emperor Joseph II had it called the “German National Theater.” Within its walls, three Mozart operas premiered: Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1782, Le nozze di Figaro in 1786, and Così fan tutte in 1790—along with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor in 1786. Then, on 2 April 1800, Beethoven’s First Symphony premiered here. Even the venue’s size mattered: a description from 1884 complained the auditorium was too small for the demand. …
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