Wrocław Opera

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The Wrocław Opera is an opera company and opera house in Wrocław, Poland. The opera house was opened in 1841 and up to 1945 was known as the Breslau Opera.HistoryAn Italian opera company was established in Wroclaw in 1725 by Antonio Maria Peruzzi, following a split with Antonio Denzio with whom he had collaborated in the Peruzzi-Denzio company at the Sporck theatre in Prague. The Theater on the Cold Ashes was opened in 1755 by Franz von Schuch and performed operas till his death in 1764. His son, Schuch the younger, brought the first operas of Johann Adam Hiller to the Theodor Lobe's theatre in Breslau in 1770. His successor Johann Christian Wäser introduced more, including local Singspiel translations of works by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. In 1804 Abbé Vogler invited Carl Maria von Weber to conduct the Breslau Opera when he was only 18. The opera house was constructed in 1841 to designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans, supervised by his son Carl Ferdinand. It was remodelled twice after fires in 1865 by and 1871 by Karl Schmidt. After the first fire Theodor Lobe in 1867 invited the young conductor Ernst Schuch to begin his career at the theatre.After World War I notable productions during the interwar years included Schönberg's Die glückliche Hand . The music directors in this period included Franz von Hoesslin who was forced to leave the city, and Germany, in 1928.