Theater Basel

The theatre also presents plays and musicals in addition to operas and operettas.

For baroque-opera productions, La Cetra, the baroque orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, is engaged.

The first theatre was designed by Swiss architect Melchior Berri.

In 1873, work on a new theatre began which was designed by Johann Jakob Stehlin Jr..

Kristiina Poska was the most recent General Music Director (GMD; Generalmusikdirektorin) of the company, the first female conductor to hold the post, appointed in October 2018 and effective with the 2019–2020 season.

Theater Basel's second theatre which was destroyed by fire in 1904 (postcard from 1904).