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Estonia Theatre is an historic landmark building in centralTallinn, the capital city ofEstonia. It houses theEstonian National Opera and theEstonian National Symphony Orchestra.
The original Estonia Theatre building was designed inJugendstil by Finnish architectsArmas Lindgren andWivi Lönn, and constructed between 1911 and 1913 on the initiative of theEstonia Society, with popular effort and widespread financial support from the Estonian people. The Estonia Theatre was opened to the general public on 24 August 1913. At the time, it was the largest building in Tallinn.
After the Republic of Estonia had become an independent country in 1918, the Estonia Theatre building was the main venue of the newly electedEstonian Constituent Assembly in April 1919. The Assembly disbanded itself after following parliamentary elections, in December 1920.
The theatre building was extensively damaged by fire caused byincendiary bombs in the 9-10 March 1944Soviet aerial bombing raid on Tallinn. When reconstructed during the post-World War II Soviet occupation of Estonia, the southern facade was retained but the overall reconstruction was in a moreclassical style, with additional elements ofStalinist architecture. It reopened to the public in 1947.[citation needed] Starting from 1946, the building also housed the premises of the newly createdTallinn Ballet School.[1]
In March 1990, during the period ofnonviolent resistance to the Soviet rule, the Estonia Theatre building became the site of the newly elected grassroots parliament, theCongress of Estonia. The Congress disbanded itself after the independent Republic of Estonia had been restored in 1991, when a new parliament had been elected in September 1992.
The building now has two large auditoriums in two separate wings. A Concert Hall is located in one wing of the building.[2] The Concert Hall was entirely renovated in 1997.[2] A separate, smaller chamber hall was reconstructed and opened to the public in 2006.[citation needed]
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