28-740: (Redirected from Berlin Opera House ) Berlin Opera may refer to: Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera Unter den Linden), opened in 1742 as Königliche Hofoper (Royal Court Opera) Deutsche Oper Berlin (German Opera Berlin), opened in 1912 as Deutsches Opernhaus (German Opera House) Komische Oper Berlin (Comical Opera Berlin), opened in 1892 as Theater Unter den Linden Berlin Opera Academy (Comical Opera Berlin), opened in 2015 in collaboration with Opernfest Topics referred to by
56-525: A Baroque manner that was rapidly becoming old-fashioned. Buildings were shown in plan, section and elevation, and some in a bird's-eye perspective. The drawings and designs contained in the book were under way before Campbell was drawn into the speculative scheme. The success of the volumes was instrumental in popularising neo- Palladian architecture in Great Britain and America during the 18th century. For example, Plate 16 of Vitruvius Britannicus ,
84-695: A belief strengthened by Campbell owning several drawings of buildings designed by Smith. His major published work, Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect... appeared in three volumes between 1715 and 1725. This was the first architectural work to originate in England since John Shute 's Elizabethan First Groundes. In the empirical vein, it was not a treatise but basically a catalogue of design, containing engravings of English buildings by Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren , as well as Campbell himself and other prominent architects of
112-619: A prominent, freestanding monumental building in a city." Originally called the Königliche Oper ('Royal Opera'), the company was renamed the Preußische Staatsoper ('Prussian State Opera') in 1919. After World War II it began operating as the national opera company for Communist East Germany , taking the name Deutsche Staatsoper ('German State Opera') in 1955. In the West and colloquially, however, people used
140-539: A propitious moment at the beginning of a boom in country house and villa building among the Whig oligarchy . Campbell was quickly taken up by Lord Burlington , who replaced James Gibbs with Campbell at Burlington House in London and set out to place himself at the centre of English neo-Palladian architecture. In 1718, Campbell was appointed deputy to the amateur gentleman who had replaced Wren as Surveyor General of
168-615: A rendering of Somerset House in London, was an inspiration for American architect Peter Harrison when he designed the Brick Market in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1761. Campbell was influenced as a young man by James Smith (c. 1645–1731), the pre-eminent Scots architect of his day, and an early neo-Palladian whom Campbell called "the most experienced architect" of Scotland ( Vitruvius Britannicus , ii). The somewhat promotional volume, with its excellently rendered engravings, came at
196-718: Is believed to be the Colinus Campbell who graduated from the University of Edinburgh in July 1695. He initially trained as a lawyer, being admitted to the Faculty of Advocates on 29 July 1702. He travelled in Italy between 1695 and 1702, and is believed to be the Colinus Campbell who signed the visitor's book at the University of Padua in 1697. He is believed to have trained in and studied architecture under James Smith ,
224-614: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Berlin State Opera The Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( lit. State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (German: Staatsoper Berlin ), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin , Germany. The opera house
252-523: Is now about 1,300. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the Opera was somewhat isolated, but still maintained a comprehensive repertoire that featured the classic and romantic period together with contemporary ballet and operas. After reunification, the Linden Opera rejoined the operatic world. Important works that had already performed in the past were rediscovered and discussed anew within
280-750: The Royal Board of Works , an appointment that Burlington is certain to have pressed, but a short-lived one. When Benson, the new Surveyor was turned out of office, Campbell went with him. There are later volumes also published under the name ‘Vitruvius Brittanicus’, but they are not connected to Colen Campbell's work. In 1739 a volume was issued by Badeslade and Rocque, described as ‘Volume 4’. However, this had little in common with Campbell, comprising mainly topographical perspective views of houses (54 plates). Between 1765 and 1771, Woolfe and Gandon published their ‘Volumes 4 & 5’ (79 and 75 plates). They discounted Badeslade's volume, believing their work to be
308-589: The Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra. On 6 January 2023, the company announced the resignation of Barenboim as its GMD, for health reasons. In January 2023, Christian Thielemann stepped in as an emergency substitute conductor for Barenboim in a new company production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . In September 2023, the company announced the appointment of Thielemann as its next GMD, effective 1 September 2024. Colen Campbell Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729)
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#1732773306867336-494: The " Staatskapellmeister ". The second rebuilding took a long time. From 1945, the opera company performed at the Admiralspalast . From 1949, the company served as the state opera of East Germany . It moved back to its original home after the rebuilding in freely adapted baroque forms was finally completed in 1955. The newly rebuilt opera house was opened, again, with Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . The capacity
364-482: The 1990s, the opera was officially renamed Staatsoper Unter den Linden . In 1992, the Argentine -Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim was appointed Generalmusikdirektor (GMD). In 2000, the orchestra, according to its official website, elected Barenboim "conductor for life." During the 2002 Festtage , he led a Wagner cycle in ten parts, a production created in collaboration with director Harry Kupfer . In 2009,
392-611: The Berlin State Opera was closed for renovation work led by German architect HG Merz . The roof of the opera building was raised and the proscenium prolonged to improve the acoustics. Other renovation and extension efforts included the director's building, the below-ground connection building and the depot building. The latter houses the new rehearsal center. The house was reopened in 2017 with premieres of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea on one weekend. The opera house also hosts
420-729: The Court Opera ( Hofoper ) was inaugurated with a performance of Carl Heinrich Graun's Cesare e Cleopatra on 7 December 1742. This event marked the beginning of the successful, 250-year co-operation between the Staatsoper and the Staatskapelle Berlin , the state orchestra, whose roots trace back to the 16th century. In 1821, the Berlin Opera—hosted at the Schauspielhaus Berlin —gave the premiere of Weber's Der Freischütz . In 1842, Wilhelm Taubert instituted
448-557: The collapse of the German Empire in 1918, the Opera was renamed Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Königliche Kapelle became Kapelle der Staatsoper . In the 1920s, Kurt Adler , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Erich Kleiber , Otto Klemperer , Alexander von Zemlinsky , Bruno Walter occupied the conductor's post. In 1925, Alban Berg 's Wozzeck , was given its premiere in a production conducted by Erich Kleiber in
476-487: The composer's presence. After having undergone an extensive renovation, the Linden Opera reopened on 28 April 1928 with a new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte . The cast included Delia Reinhardt , Richard Tauber , Friedrich Schorr and Leo Schützendorf , conducted by Erich Kleiber. The same year, the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes with conductor Ernest Ansermet were guest performers. In 1930 Erich Kleiber conducted
504-406: The conductors Kurt Adler , Otto Klemperer and Fritz Busch . Clemens Krauss became a prominent German conductor first at the Berlin State Opera in 1933 and was then appointed as its director in 1935 due to Fritz Busch and Erich Kleiber resigning, respectively, their positions in protest over Nazi rule. In Nazi Germany , Robert Heger , Herbert von Karajan (1939–1945) and Johannes Schüler were
532-424: The era. In the introduction that he appended and in the brief descriptions, Campbell belaboured the "excesses" of Baroque style and declared British independence from foreigners while he dedicated the volume to Hanoverian George I . The third volume (1725) has several grand layouts of gardens and parks, with straight allées, for courts and patterned parterres and radiating rides through wooded plantations , in
560-602: The framework of a "Berlin Dramaturgy". Baroque Opera in particular was at the center of attention, with Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare , Keiser's Croesus , Florian Leopold Gassmann 's L'opera seria and Scarlatti's Griselda . These works were performed by Belgian conductor René Jacobs together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Freiburger Barockorchester on period instruments . In
588-454: The name Staatsoper Unter den Linden ('State Opera Unter den Linden ') after the boulevard on which the theatre sits. This usage became more common after the collapse of East Germany in 1990, but, contrary to the company's website, it was not officially adopted until 1995 and the old name still appeared on new recordings issued by the company as late as the following year. King Frederick II of Prussia , shortly after his accession to
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#1732773306867616-601: The premiere of Darius Milhaud's Christophe Colomb . However, in 1934, when symphonic pieces from Alban Berg's Lulu were performed by Kleiber, the National Socialists provoked a scandal and the conductor was forced into exile. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis , members of Jewish origin were dismissed from the ensemble. Many German musicians associated with the opera went into exile, including
644-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Berlin Opera . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berlin_Opera&oldid=1012337413 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
672-596: The throne, commissioned the original building on the site. Though architecturally significant as an early example of the Palladian revival in Germany, the north and west façades are direct copies of Colen Campbell 's elevations at Stourhead and Wanstead respectively. Construction work began in July 1741, with what was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff to be the first part of a "Forum Fredericianum" on present-day Bebelplatz . Although not entirely completed,
700-477: The tradition of regular symphonic concerts. In the same year, Giacomo Meyerbeer succeeded Gaspare Spontini as General Music Director. Felix Mendelssohn also conducted symphonic concerts for a year. On 18 August 1843 the Linden Opera was destroyed by fire. The reconstruction of the building was supervised by architect Carl Ferdinand Langhans , and the Königliches Opernhaus (Royal Opera House)
728-520: Was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style . For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England. As well as his architectural designs, he is known for Vitruvius Britannicus , three volumes of high-quality engravings showing the great houses of the time. A descendant of the Campbells of Cawdor Castle , he
756-795: Was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the Palladian style . Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II , the former Royal Prussian Opera House was rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Forum Fridericianum square. Nicknamed Lindenoper in Berlin, it is "the world´s oldest state opera" and "the first theater anywhere to be, by itself,
784-728: Was inaugurated the following autumn by a performance of Meyerbeer's Ein Feldlager in Schlesien . In 1849, Otto Nicolai's Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor was premiered at the Royal Opera House, conducted by the composer. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Royal Court Opera, Berlin, attracted many illustrious conductors. They included Felix von Weingartner , Karl Muck , Richard Strauss , Leo Blech and George Szell . After
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