Bühnen der Stadt Gera, Five-section theatre in Gera, Germany

The Bühnen der Stadt Gera is an opera house and theater in Gera featuring a monumental T-shaped design that blends Neo-Renaissance, Classicist, and Art Nouveau elements with elaborate golden ornamentation. The complex contains a theater hall seating 552 people and a concert hall with 812 seats for different types of performances.

Architect Heinrich Seeling designed the building, which opened on October 18, 1902, as a technically modern opera house. The project was financed chiefly through private donations, allowing it to be equipped with advanced stage technology of that era.

This venue serves as a key gathering place for opera, concert, and theater performances across multiple artistic departments. The two halls of different sizes allow for varied productions that draw different audiences to experience live performances together.

The Große Haus stands at Küchengartenallee 2, near Gera's main railway station. The theatre hall seats 552 and the concert hall 812, while the small Bühne am Park holds 141. The concert hall houses a Sauer organ from 1977, and the exterior colours were repainted according to the historic scheme in recent years.

Above the main entrance, in a large round-arched niche, stand busts of Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; higher up on the central gable sits a gilded winged genius. The Latin inscription Musis Sacrum, "consecrated to the muses", accompanies the entrance facade.