Amadeo's theatre

The plays in Amadeo's theatre were performed almost exclusively in the German language.^[2] In 1832 and 1833 German actors in Amadeo's theatre performed the first public and professional plays in the Croatian Kajkavian dialect. Dragutin Rakovac (1813–1854) translated two comedies by Kotzebue to Kajkavian, and Josef Schweigert, director and actor of a German group who was performing at the theatre at the time, portrayed the following plays:^{[citation needed]}

• 2 October 1832 Ztari mladosenja i kosharice (by Kotzebue)
• 28 January 1833 Vkanjeni Vkanitel (by Florijan)
• 23 July 1833 Ztari zaszebni kuchish Petra III (by Kotzebue)

A collective German language repertoire with standard features of the Austrian province of the time was portrayed in Amadeo's theatre: dramas, operas, ballets and a special kind of uncomplicated plays with singing sections which later developed into an operetta called Singspiel.^{[citation needed]} At the beginning of the 19th century, the occurrence of writers pertaining to the Vienna circle, who marked the beginning of the Vienna folk theatre with their works, is becoming more and more frequent, and without them it would be impossible to imagine the genesis of the Croatian folk play.

In the Croatian theatrical history, Amadeo's theatre had a primarily educational role.^{[citation needed]}

• Amadeo Theatre and Music Company

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