The National Theatre Brno ( cs, Národní divadlo Brno) is an opera, ballet and drama company in the

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, that nation's second busiest. It was established in 1884 on the model of the National Theatre company in Prague. Today it runs the biennial Janáček Festival, in November, and has three venues: * Janáček Theatre, the largest, completed in 1965 * Mahen Theatre, originally the German-language Theatre on the Walls, with some 700 seats; finished in 1882; first theatre on the

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with electric lighting (designed by

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himself); site of the premieres of Janáček's greatest operas * Reduta Theatre, the oldest theatre house in

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, recently reconstructed; in December 1767 the twelve-year-old

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gave a concert there

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* Opera houses in the Czech Republic Brno, National Theatre (Brno) Theatres in Brno Theatres completed in 1884 Music venues completed in 1884 1884 establishments in Austria-Hungary 19th-century establishments in Bohemia {{Opera-struct-stub