The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre (; NDM) is a professional theatre company based in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is one of ten opera houses in the country, and the largest theatre company in the Moravian-Silesian Region. The NDM has two permanent theatres, the AntonÃÂn DvoÃ
Âák Theatre and the JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Myron Theatre. The company was registered in 1918, and the theatre was first opened to the public on 19 August 1919.
Artistic output
The theatre consists of four artistic companies: drama, opera, operetta/musical, and ballet. Each year the theatre stages 16âÂÂ19 premieres and just under 500 performances. The current director of the theatre is JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Nekvasil, and the artistic directors of the four companies are Jakub Klecker (opera), VojtÃÂch Ã
 tÃÂpánek (drama), Lenka DÃ
ÂÃÂmalová (ballet), and Gabriela Petráková (operetta/musical).
Names
- 1919: National Moravian-Silesian Theatre (; NDMS)
- 1941: Czech Moravian-Ostravian Theatre (; ÃÂDMO)
- 1945: Moravian Ostrava Provincial Theatre (; ZDO)
- 1948: State Theatre in Ostrava (; SDO)
- 1995: National Moravian-Silesian Theatre (; NDM)
List of directors
- Václav JiÃ
Âikovský (1919âÂÂ1923)
- FrantiÃ
¡ek UhlÃÂÃ
 (1923âÂÂ1926)
- MiloÃ
¡ Nový (1926âÂÂ1930)
- Ladislav Knotek (1930âÂÂ1939)
- Karel JiÃÂÃÂnský (1939âÂÂ1939)
- Jan Ã
 koda (1940âÂÂ1942)
- JiÃ
ÂàMyron (1942âÂÂ1946)
- Stanislav Langer (1946âÂÂ1948)
- AntonÃÂn KurÃ
¡ (1948âÂÂ1952)
- DrahoÃ
¡ Ã
½elenský (1952âÂÂ1953)
- Miloslav Holub (1954âÂÂ1956)
- Vladislav HamÃ
¡ÃÂk (1956âÂÂ1971)
- ZdenÃÂk Starý (1971âÂÂ1988)
- Dalibor Malina (1989âÂÂ1991)
- Ilja Racek (1991âÂÂ1998)
- LudÃÂk Golat (1998âÂÂ2009)
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Nekvasil (since 2010)
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