Strasbourg Opera House, Opera house in Place Broglie, Strasbourg, France
The Strasbourg Opera House is a Neoclassical building on Place Broglie, designed by Jean-Nicolas Villot and opened in 1821. Its sandstone facade has a colossal portico of six Ionic columns, each aligned with one of the six muse statues by Landolin Ohmacht on the roofline. The auditorium seats 1,142 and rises 18 metres to the ceiling.
The current building was constructed in 1821 after a fire destroyed an earlier structure on this site. Following damage during the Franco-Prussian War, extensive restoration work took place in 1873.
The Opéra national du Rhin performs here with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mulhouse National Orchestra, the Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin and the Petits Chanteurs de Strasbourg. The house is a member of the Réunion des opéras de France, RESEO and Opera Europa.
The building sits centrally at Place Broglie and is easy to reach on foot when exploring the city. It helps to check the program schedule before your visit to catch the performances you want to see.
The roof parapet carries six muses by Landolin Ohmacht, not the nine of tradition: Clio, Thalia and Urania were left out. Each statue stands above a column of the facade, so the missing three can be counted from the Place Broglie side.
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