Franz Pokorny

Productions staged at the Theater in der Josefstadt included the Vienna premieres of Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots (1839), and of Donizetti's operas Lucia di Lammermoor (1843) and La fille du régiment (1844).

He also staged in his theatres classic dramas and Possen mit Gesang; Der Zauberschleier by Franz Xaver Told was successful.

Conductors of the orchestra of the Theater an der Wien during this period included Franz von Suppé and Albert Lortzing, and productions included the Vienna premieres of Lortzing's opera Undine and of Meyerbeer's opera Vielka (both 1847).

[1][2] His health declined; the high cost of his productions, the revolutionary events of 1848, and his generosity in donating to Viennese charities, increased his indebtedness.

His son Alois Pokorny (1825–1883) continued to run the Theater an der Wien until 1862, when it was leased by Friedrich Strampfer, but remained the owner until 1873.