Estonian National Opera
The Estonian National Opera grew out of the Estonia society, a song and drama club founded in 1865 that turned professional as a theatre company in 1906. Its home was born of national ambition. An international competition held in 1908 was won by the Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn, and when the building, poised between Art Nouveau and classicism, opened in 1913 it was the largest structure in Tallinn, with a theatre in one wing and a concert hall in the other.
On 9 March 1944 a Soviet air raid gutted the building. Rebuilding began almost at once; the concert hall returned in 1946, the theatre hall in 1947, and the section linking the two wings was completed only in 1991, as a winter garden. Through occupation and restored independence the house has remained the country's stage for opera and ballet, and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte figures among the productions it offers audiences today.
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