Estonia
house and concert hall in Tallinn,
Estonia. The Jugendstil building was
designed by Finnish architects Armas
Lindgren and Wivi Lönn. It was built as
a national effort with the leadership of
Estonia society in 1913 and was opened
to the public on 24 August. At the time,
it was the largest building in Tallinn.
The opera house was heavily
damaged in the Soviet air raid on
Tallinn on 9 March 1944. It was
reconstructed in a classical and
Stalinist style, and reopened in 1947.
Thebuilding has two large
auditoriums in two separate wings. It
now houses the Estonian National
Opera and the Estonian National
Symphony Orchestra. A chamber hall
was opened in 2006.
Speciality
In2003 a new multipurpose chamber
hall was completed in the opera
house, in the autumn of 2004 the
theatre hall got a new and modern
stage, in 2005 the theatre hall and
the rooms for the audience were
renovated before the celebrations of
a centenary of the professional
“Estonia” theatre.