German Opera Berlin
In German Opera Berlin once stood Berlin’s major house for German-language performance and the Berlin State Ballet, but it was destroyed in the Second World War. The company’s history reaches back to the Deutsches Opernhaus planned from 1911 by Heinrich Seeling, opening on 7 November 1912 with Beethoven’s Fidelio, conducted by Ignatz Waghalter. After the 1920 Greater Berlin Act incorporated Charlottenburg, the building’s name was changed in 1925 to Städtische Oper. In 1935, the Nazi era brought a remodeling by Paul Baumgarten and a reduction of the auditorium from 2,300 to 2,098 seats. Carl Ebert, the pre-World War II general manager, emigrated rather than endorse the Nazi line, and performances instead pushed toward works framed as having “unalloyed German character.” Then, on 23 November 1943, a Royal Air Force air raid destroyed the opera house; performances continued at the Admiralspalast until 1945. …
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