Stage Theater des Westens
In Stage Theater des Westens once stood Berlin’s best-known musical and operetta house, founded in 1895 as a theatre for plays and later converted into a major venue for opera and operetta. The present building was designed by Bernhard Sehring and opened on 1 October 1896, initially staging a repertoire that turned from opera to operetta as the years went on. Before the devastation of 1943, the house could already claim international headlines: Enrico Caruso made his Berlin debut here in 1905, and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes brought *Carnaval* in 1910, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine, with Anna Pavlova appearing with the company in 1914. In the 1930s it operated as the Volkstheater Berlin, and after World War II it served as the temporary opera house of the Städtische Oper. By 1961, the institution became the first theatre in Germany to show musicals, helping to define what Berlin would associate with Broadway-style entertainment.
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