Deutsche Oper Berlin
Charlottenburg, then a wealthy independent city, built the Deutsches Opernhaus as a civic answer to the royal opera on Unter den Linden. Designed by Heinrich Seeling, it opened on 7 November 1912 with Beethoven's Fidelio. Bombs destroyed the building in 1943, and Fritz Bornemann replaced it with a deliberately austere structure whose long, windowless facade became a symbol of West Berlin modernism. The new house opened on 24 September 1961 with Don Giovanni and remains the city's largest opera house, seating around 1,900.
Mozart's Die Zauberflöte is woven into its history in an unexpected way. On 2 June 1967, while the Shah of Iran attended a performance of the opera here, police shot the student Benno Ohnesorg during protests outside, a death that galvanized the West German student movement. On stage, Günter Krämer's production of Die Zauberflöte, first seen in 1991, has held the repertoire for more than three decades and remains an audience favourite.
architect: Fritz Bornemann
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, 2019 [Trailer]
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