The city of Bern, canton and regional municipalities are jointly financing the urgently needed renovation of Bern's municipal theater. The city's share amounts to CHF 19.05 million. The municipal council has approved the corresponding voting message for the attention of the city council.
A strict cost ceiling of CHF 45 million is assumed for the renovation in the planning and project design. A vote is scheduled for November 24, 2013.
A study contract was carried out for the public area. The architectural firm Smolenicky & Partner from Zurich emerged as the winner. The "Theatersalon" project impressed those responsible with the appropriateness of the architectural and urban intervention.
The project will restore the splendour of the neo-baroque architecture and open up, modernize and enhance the public area of the Stadttheater, writes the City of Bern. The winning projects will be exhibited in the gallery of the Kornhausforum, Kornhausplatz 18, from April 9 to 20, 2013.
Around 80 operas or musicals and 12 ballet evenings are performed at the Stadttheater Bern each season, the theater is used for 50 performances and there are also an increasing number of interdisciplinary performances. There are also readings and performances of the Nouvelle Scène in French, recitals and family concerts, and the house is also used by guests time and again: the stage for theater or music performances, the foyer as a festival center.
