Berlin State Opera
This opera house carries the name Staatsoper Unter den Linden, but its story begins with a royal order: Frederick the Great commissioned a “Royal Opera” building on the boulevard, planned by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff and built from 1741 to 1743 in the Palladian style. Even before the building’s later trials, its design tied Berlin to wider European architectural fashion, with façades modeled on Colen Campbell’s elevations at Stourhead and Wanstead. That continuity was broken by the 20th century. During the Allied bombing of World War II, the former Royal Prussian Opera House was heavily damaged, and the theatre was later rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Forum Fridericianum square in East Berlin—so the structure you pass today is a reconstruction rather than an uninterrupted survival from the 1740s. …
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