Visit the most beautiful rococo theatre in Germany: the Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residence.

Highlights

• Munich City Pass: The ticket for the Cuvilliés Theatre is already included in your Munich City Pass. 
• Munich Card: With the München Card, you get a 20% discount on this attraction. 
• The regular price of an adult ticket is €5. 

• Most important rococo theatre in Germany 
• Popular venue for cultural events 
• The magnificent interior reflects the social order of the time: from the Elector’s box to the simple ground floor seats for the urban nobility. 

Discover the magnificent Rococo period

What awaits you on site

The theatre, which today bears the name of the architect who designed it, François Cuvilliés the Elder, was built in the immediate vicinity of the residence and saw numerous magnificent productions, including the premiere of Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’. On 18 March 1944, however, the theatre building was completely destroyed. Only the carved and painted wooden tiered seating of the auditorium survived, because they had been moved to a storage site in 1943. In 1958, after extensive restoration work, these fixtures were installed in the so-called Apothekenstock (Apothecary Floor) of the Munich Residenz and the old theatre was reconstructed in this new location. The new theatre building is accessible from the Brunnenhof of the Residenz. The reconstructed theatre auditorium in white, red and gold from the mid-18th century, with its exuberant figural and ornamental decoration in the ‘style rocaille’, is considered a major work of the Bavarian rococo.

How to get there

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Address:
Residenzstr. 1 80333 Munich 

Good to know

• Opening hours
  10 September – 20 October:
  Monday–Saturday 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm,
  Sundays/holidays 9.00 am – 6.00 pm
  
  21 October – 22 March:
  Monday–Saturday 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm,
  Sundays/bank holidays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm 
  
  
• Last admission: 1 hour before closing time 
• Closed: 1 January, Shrove Tuesday, 24, 25 and 31 December   

• Entrance in the passageway between Brunnenhof and Apothekenhof

The ticket for the Cuvilliés Theatre is already included in your Munich City Pass. With the München Card, you get a 20% discount on this attraction.

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