Amadeo's theatre

[2] Amadeo's theatre was named after Anton Amade de Varkony, Hungarian count and notable county prefect of Zagreb.

The building in which it was situated is the present location of the Croatian Natural History Museum and, from 2000, the home of the Amadeo Theatre and Music Company.

The earliest preserved poster, dated January 1799, advertised a comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello.

[2] In 1832 and 1833 German actors in Amadeo's theatre performed the first public and professional plays in the Croatian Kajkavian dialect.

Dragutin Rakovac (1813–1854) translated two comedies by Kotzebue to Kajkavian, and Josef Schweigert, director and actor of a German group who was performing at the theatre at the time, portrayed the following plays:[citation needed] A collective German language repertoire with standard features of the Austrian province of the time was portrayed in Amadeo's theatre: dramas, operas, ballets and a special kind of uncomplicated plays with singing sections which later developed into an operetta called Singspiel.