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Aalto Ballett Theater

The Essen Aalto-Theater is not only a prestigious stage for the Aalto opera, ballet, the Aalto Theatre in Essen and the Essen Philharmonic, but also a cultural monument of international standing. The Finn Alvar Aalto, who, like Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier of the most representative of the architecture in the 20th Century one has to be here the concept of "human architecture" - whose primary objective is the well-being of people inside the building - from the plan consistently implemented by the portal. By 1959 Aalto put before the first plans for the new theater Essen - to the realization you need to wait 30 years. The completion in 1988 experienced Aalto (1898-1976) no more.
The construction reminds his organically flowing basic forms of Finnish landscapes. Its broad, curving rows of seats before the stage (1125 seats) and the rising Auditoriumsform, which is also asymmetric refused to Aalto at the Greek Theater in Delphi. The stage tower is in the roof and so integrated into the plastic overall shape of the building. The Aalto Music Theatre is one of the best opera houses in Germany. Since 1997, Stefan Soltesz added as director of the Aalto Theatre music and general music director of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the artistic director holds. The Essen Aalto Ballet Theater, the years' best ballet in NRW ", as the beginning of the 2008/2009 season under the direction of the Belgian Ben Van Cauwenbergh, has set itself the goal to inspire the younger and older audiences entrain and to maintain the highest level.