The energy efficiency improvement project cost 16.3 million euros, of which 9.5 million euros was financed by European Union funds. During that time, both the exterior and interior of the Valmiera Drama Theater building were renovated.
The theater opened its season on July 30, but the Great Hall will have its first performance on September 26, when it will be shown from Fireplaces rescheduled show Valmiera boys. The first new production will be counted on October 4 – a performance Cosmopolitanwhich was created in cooperation with the Wieland Theater, but in the New Hall – a performance on October 25 Closer.
Demolish the old outbuildings
The construction of the building, built according to the project of architects Modras Ģelža, Olitas Upacieres and Juras Gusevas, which was built on the site of the more than hundred-year-old wooden house of the Latvian Society of Valmiera, was not easy. It started in 1987, but in the 1990s construction did not go well and the theater was fully operational only in 2004. The theater team had to move around different rooms, and the new building turned out to be poorly constructed.
The next reconstruction of the Valmiera Drama Theater building was not smooth and fast either, and at one point there were even concerns about whether and when it would be completed. This is because disputes arose between the owner of the theater and the promoter of the project – VAS, due to the increase in construction costs State real estate (VNI) and builders. While the officials and the builder were explaining themselves, meanwhile the theater had to sit on suitcases and work in survival mode in the Round Hall, as well as in the theater In the hearth (in the former boiler house). The theater team met the winter of 2023 without a roof or heating. After all, the contract with
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2024-09-12 05:44:41