Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie
Eclectic-style opera house built over a demolished medieval church, with frescoes and a curtain by Henryk Siemiradzki.
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This guide to the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków opens with the painter Jan Matejko swearing never to show his work in the city again, after the city council voted in 1886 to demolish a five-hundred-year-old church on this square to build a grand municipal theatre. It follows architect Jan Zawiejski's design through its 1893 opening as the first electrically wired building in Kraków, and the 1901 premiere of Stanisław Wyspiański's The Wedding, a play that split audiences over what it said about Polish society. Look up at the frescoed ceiling and the stage curtain painted by Henryk Siemiradzki.
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