Deutsche Oper am Rhein
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is a two-city company, founded in 1955/56 when Düsseldorf and Duisburg revived an operatic partnership that had first linked them from 1887 to 1920. Its first season opened on 29 September 1956 with Elektra in Düsseldorf, followed by Falstaff in Duisburg a day later. The Düsseldorf home, built in 1875 as a Stadttheater to plans by Ernst Giese, was patched up hastily after the war and then thoroughly rebuilt, reopening in April 1956 with Fidelio. Together the Opernhaus Düsseldorf and the Theater Duisburg seat around 2,400.
Since December 2013 the company's Die Zauberflöte has been one of its biggest draws: the animated staging created by Barrie Kosky with the British collective 1927, in which singers interact with a hand-drawn silent-film world projected around them. It has drawn more than 100,000 spectators over more than 100 performances in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and apart from Berlin's Komische Oper, this is the only house keeping the production in permanent repertoire.
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DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE – Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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