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These intensely blue reliefs, which are visible from the outside through the glass skin of the building, inspired the city's graphic artist, Uwe Gelesch, to introduce blue as Gelsenkirchen's house colour.

The orchestra is funded by the cities of Gelsenkirchen and Recklinghausen and the district of Unna.In 1968, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's work Photoptosis was premiered at the Musiktheater im Revier. "What is reality, what is perception?", programm guide by Susanne Stà¤hr (translated by Richard Evidon) The first performance of Albert Lortzing's 1899 opera Regina which used the the composer's original libretto took place at the MiR in 1998.

They consist of one 7à—20 m (à—) monochrome sponge sculpture in a distinctive blue ("Gelsenkirchen Blue") because Klein's International Klein Blue was unsuitable for the large walls: the aceton-based mixture evaporated, the paint lost adhesion and luminescence, and it was highly flammable.

The cubic outer shell of the Large House is formed by a glass facade, which gives view into the interior and the cylindric casing of the auditorium and its stairways, and the two monumental scuptures by the French artist Yves Klein.

It opened on 15 December 1959; it is listed since 1997 as a protected cultural monument.The building offers two performance spaces: the Large House (GroàŸes Haus) with 1,008 seats and about 200 performances per year, and the Small House (Kleines Haus) with 336 seats and about 120 annual performances.

Austerity measures in 1966/67 forced the abandonment of plays. "50 Jahre Musiktheater im Revier", interview of Peter Rose, municipal cultural director, by Franz R.Stuke (2009), Opernnetz.de Like most German municipal theatres (Stadttheater), the Musiktheater im Revier employs its own opera company and chorus and a ballet company under the direction of Bernd Schindowski.

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