Vasile Alecsandri National Theater

The Iasi National Theatre in Iasi, Romania, is the oldest countrywide theatre and one of the most prestigious theatrical institutions in Romania. In 1956, it changed into given the call of the famend Romanian playwright and poet Vasile Alecsandri. One of the first theatrical performance in Romanian language, changed into organized by means of Gheorghe Asachi, and held inside the capital of Moldavia, Jassy/Iasi, on 27 September 1816. In 1834, a Romanian production took place in Iasi on the degree of the Theatre de variete, constructed in 1832 for the French Fouraux troupe.

The National Theatre turned into founded on 15 May 1840, because the Great Theatre of Moldavia, while the Romanian language troupe, led by Costache Caragiali, became united with the French troupe, under a unmarried direction of Vasile Alecsandri and the management of Costache Caragiali. On 22 December 1846, a new target audience hall changed into inaugurated inside the former mansion of Prince Mihail Sturdza, on the Hill of Copou.