Malmö City Theatre ( sv, Malmö stadsteater) in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

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, is the main theatre of Malmö.

History

The first theatre in Malmö, Malmö Teater, was built in 1808 but became out of use in 1938. The Malmö City Theatre was built by the architect

Sigurd Lewerentz Sigurd Lewerentz (29 July 1885 – 29 December 1975) was a Swedish architect. Biography Lewerentz was born at Sandö in the parish of Bjärtrå in Västernorrland County, Sweden. He was the son of Gustaf Adolf Lewerentz and Hedvig Mathild ...

between 1932 and 1944. From its opening in 1944 and until 1992 it was one of

's leading city theatres. From the 1950s it was run by director

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...

who staged a number of memorable and important productions with an ensemble which included popular "Bergman-actors" such as

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Max von Sydow Max von Sydow ( , ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television ...

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and

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. In 1992, the theatre was reorganized as ''Malmö Musik och Teater AB'', and finally in 1994 split in four independent companies: ''Malmö Dramatiska Teater AB'' (Malmö Dramatic Theatre), ''Malmö symfoniorkester AB'' (

Malmö Symphony Orchestra The Malmö Symphony Orchestra ( sv, Malmö Symfoniorkester) is a Swedish orchestra, based in Malmö. Since 2015, it has been resident at the Malmö Live Concert Hall. The orchestra has a complement of 94 musicians. History The orchestra was fo ...

), ''Skånes Dansteater AB'' (

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Dance Theatre) and ''Malmö Musikteater AB'' (Malmö Music Theatre). While the first three of the group of four moved to other performance spaces, only the Malmö Music Theatre remained in the building. By the end of the 1990s it was renamed in its present form - the

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- and the stage is nowadays used solely as an

opera house An opera house is a theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets. While some venues are constructed specifically for o ...

External links

Malmö Opera and Music Theatre
(official site)
History of the old Malmö City Theatre at IngmarBergman.se
{{DEFAULTSORT:Malmo City Theatre Former theatres in Sweden Organizations based in Malmö