Altes Theater (Düsseldorf)

The name Grupellotheater recalls that the building was the former casting house of the Baroque sculptor Gabriel de Grupello.

The young Albert Lortzing and Rosina Regina Ahles also belonged to Derossi's ensemble.

In 1834, Immermann's ensemble included Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Julius Rietz as conductors, a rendant, a theatre doctor, ten men as technical staff, 20 actors and 11 actresses, nine singers and three female singers, ten male choristers and seven female choristers.

Finally, in 1832, a classicist portico with a tympanum on four Ionic columns was placed in front of the main façade according to a design by Anton Schnitzler, a student of Vagedes.

The playhouse on the market square was finally replaced by a new municipal theatre, the Stadttheater Düsseldorf, completed in 1875.