Konzerthaus Berlin
In Konzerthaus Berlin once stood a theatre with a dramatic arc that began with fire. The building’s predecessor, the National-Theater in the Friedrichstadt suburb, had been inaugurated on 1 January 1802 and was destroyed by fire in 1817. Karl Friedrich Schinkel then designed the new hall between 1818 and 1821, and it opened on 18 June 1821 with the acclaimed premiere of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz. During the 1848 Revolution, its main auditorium hosted the Prussian National Assembly for several weeks in September, while the square around it became a major stage for political events. After World War II, the venue shifted from stage to concert, and in 1994 it took the name Konzerthaus Berlin. Its resident orchestra is the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and the hall also hosts Young Euro Classic every summer, an international festival of youth orchestras. …
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