AKTIENTHEATER
Aktientheater / Obergericht Zürich. Hirschengraben 15, 8001 Zurich.
The old stock theatre burned down in 1890 and was demolished afterward. Today the Obergericht Zurich can be found in its place. Wagner directed many opera performances in the “Aktientheater”, for example Beethoven’s Fidelio (1850/51), Weber’s Freischütz (1850/51), and performances of his own works (Der Fliegende Holländer, 1853 / Tannhäuser, 1855). In 1851, Wagner offered suggestions for the reorganisation of the Zurich Theatre in the reform-oriented paper “Ein Theater in Zürich”.