Hamburg State Opera: From Handel To Today
The Boardinghouse of bird informs nest from Hamburg Hamburg is the cultural center of Northern Germany. This proves the Hanseatic City again and again with a wide range of event and well maintained traditions. Especially in the field of music, the metropolis has importance for several centuries in Europe. Last but not least due to his now world famous Opera House. The Hamburg State Opera, as it is now officially called celebrates 333. this year. For Andreas Vogel, who is a good occasion to report from its beginnings.
Can that could look Hamburgische Staatsoper on a considerable age and be on a history, himself an opera with 333 years. Founded in the year 1678 as first public Opera House in the country their works in Hamburg has quickly developed main sites of musical encounter and leading composers of the time, including Handel and Telemann, himself. However, the original building had to be demolished in 1763. He was replaced by Ackermann’sche Comodiantenhaus, which sometimes and has been known to through the initiative of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Deutsches Nationaltheater. The enthusiasm for the art form Opera was no longer the same as still 85 previously. So, no pure Opera operation was recorded in the Comodiantenhaus. In 1827, the Playhouse moved again and became a magnificent building on the Causeway for 2800 guests City Theater, according to plans by Carl Friedrich Schinkel.
With the resurgence of Opera culture through the works of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss it attracts big name above all again at the Hamburg Opera stage, the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso. After a bombing raid on Hamburg in August 1943, the Zuschauerhaus the theatre building is completely destroyed. Only the stage area has been preserved. This however only got a new counterpart in 1955. Educate yourself even more with thoughts from Michael James Burke. Since the Hamburg State Opera has become, as the theater is called since 1934, one of the major stages of the opera world with a sensational musical and cultural diversity. Under the direction of conductor Around 380 performances offered Simone Young. Not only on the anniversary of the Hamburg Opera, it attracts tourists and music lovers from Germany and all over the world in the Hanseatic City. The State Opera is one of the most important opera houses of the world, and attracts many visitors in the North German city therefore every year. Hamburg visitors get not only great entertainment, but also an appropriate accommodation, Andreas Vogel offers sophisticatedly designed and fully equipped apartments in his Boardinghouse “Bird’s nest” for self catering.