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Already in the 17th In the 19th century, opera performances in Graz can be proven. The first theater building - a converted garage of the Hofstallungen - was made available for opera performances in 1736. Regardless of the not very elaborately designed rooms, the program was at the height of that time; they played Gluck and Pergolesi, the avant-garde of the time, and acquired such a good reputation that Empress Maria Theresia made the so-called Vice-Sedom house in the Grazer Hofgasse available for a theater building. In 1776, the "National Theater or Ständische Theater" was opened at Freiheitsplatz (in the same place is still the Grazer Schauspielhaus today - after numerous reconstructions).