Bayerische Staatsoper

Munich's Nationaltheater has burned twice and risen twice. Commissioned by King Maximilian I Joseph and designed by Karl von Fischer, it opened in 1818, only to burn down in January 1823, on a night when the firefighting water had frozen. Leo von Klenze rebuilt it by 1825 behind its Greek temple portico on Max-Joseph-Platz. Allied bombs gutted the theatre in October 1943, and a painstaking reconstruction, completed in 1963, restored the classical hall that today seats more than 2,000. Wagner premiered Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger here in the 1860s.

As home of the Bayerische Staatsoper, the house has deep Mozart roots: the Munich court opera, its predecessor, gave the world premiere of Idomeneo in 1781. Die Zauberflöte has become a Munich institution of its own through August Everding's 1978 staging with Jürgen Rose's storybook designs. Refreshed in 2004, it remains in repertory and has introduced generations of audiences to Tamino and Papageno.

On stage here

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