page_title: Grand Theatre, Warsaw
section_title: Building's restoration
hierarchical_section_title: Grand Theatre, Warsaw / History / Building's restoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Great Theatre in Warsaw, Poland. Polski: Teatr Wielki w Warszawie.
context_page_description: The Grand Theatre in Warsaw, known in full as the Great Theatre—National Opera, is a theatre and opera complex situated on the historic Theatre Square in central Warsaw, Poland. The Warsaw Grand Theatre is home to the Polish National Ballet and is one of the largest theatrical venues in the world, with a seating capacity of over 2,000.
  The Warsaw Grand Theatre was inaugurated on 24 February 1833 with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville. After the building's bombing and near-complete destruction in World War II, it was rebuilt and reopened on 19 November 1965 after having been closed for over twenty years. The original building was designed in a neoclassical style by architects Antonio Corazzi and Chrystian Piotr Aigner, and later restored by Bohdan Pniewski.
context_section_description: Between 1945 and 1965, the company performed on other stages while the theatre building was being restored and expanded to the designs of Bohdan Pniewski, under the supervision of Arnold Szyfman. When the restored theatre was opened to the public on November 19, 1965, it was one of the most imposing and best-equipped state-of-the-art theatres in Europe. The Polish National Opera was the largest theatre in the world.
caption: Grand Theatre, Warsaw
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