German Opera Berlin

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country’s second largest opera house and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004 the Deutsche Oper Berlin, like the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), the Komische Oper Berlin, the Berlin State Ballet, and the Bühnenservice Berlin (Stage and Costume Design), has been a member of the Berlin Opera Foundation.

The company’s history goes back to the Deutsches Opernhaus built by the then independent city of Charlottenburg—the “richest town of Prussia“—according to plans designed by Heinrich Seeling from 1911. It opened on November 7, 1912 with a performance of Beethoven‘s Fidelio, conducted by Ignatz Waghalter. In 1925, after the incorporation of Charlottenburg by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act, the name of the resident building was changed to Städtische Oper (Municipal Opera). The opera house was destroyed by a RAF air raid on 23 November 1943. Performances continued at the Admiralspalast in Mitte until 1945.

© Andreas Praefcke/cc-by-3.0 'Tod des Demonstranten' Ohnesorg memorial by Alfred Hrdlicka © Lorem ipsum/cc-by-sa-2.0-de Foyer © Andreas Praefcke/cc-by-3.0 © Andreas Praefcke/cc-by-3.0 © Manfred Brückels/cc-by-sa-3.0
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'Tod des Demonstranten' Ohnesorg memorial by Alfred Hrdlicka © Lorem ipsum/cc-by-sa-2.0-de
After the war, in what was now West Berlin, the company, again called Städtische Oper, used the nearby Theater des Westens; its opening production was Fidelio, on 4 September 1945. Its home was finally rebuilt in 1961 but to a much-changed, sober design by Fritz Bornemann. The opening production of the newly named Deutsche Oper, on 24 September, was Mozart‘s Don Giovanni.

On the evening of 2 June 1967, Benno Ohnesorg, a student taking part in the German student movement, was shot in the streets around the opera house. He had been protesting against the visit to Germany by the Shah of Iran, who was attending a performance of Mozart‘s The Magic Flute. In 1986 the American Berlin Opera Foundation was founded.

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