Timișoara’s princely opera house is one of more than 200 designed by the prolific Viennese partnership Fellner & Helmer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire across Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th century.
It was inaugurated in 1875 but was completely gutted by two fires one in 1880 and another in 1920, and following the latter only the side wings were restored according to the first design.
