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There's always confusion on the names of the opera houses in Berlin.
Bruno Walter conducted at the Charlottenburg Oper (Städtische Oper or City Opera). After the war it was called the Städtische Oper Berlin, until 1961 when it was re-named the Deutsche Oper. The Lindenoper is the Staatsoper, also called Staatsoper unter den Linden (previously known as the Royal Court Opera), this was where Erich Kleiber conducted. The Kroll Opera house, where Klemperer conducted, was destroyed during the war. Hofoper and Court Opera are the same thing. After WWI Germany became The Deutsche Oper is situated in Berlin-Charlottenburg. It was There was the "Neues Königliches Opernhaus" which is known better But "Hofoper" and "Staatsoper" aren't just the houses but can also mean the “company”, like when you say that the "Met is on tour". In this sense the Krolloper was part of the Hofoper and later Staatsoper (in the time relevant for Jadlowker). IIRC other theatres were used over the years for opera productions of the "Hofoper". Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper). The former court opera house (Hofoper) on Unter den Linden, where, after rebuilding, it still stands. on account of its position it was often referred to as the Linden Opera (Lindenoper), particularly in order to distinguish it from the State Opera's second theatre (the Kroll). Today the Deutsche Staatsoper Kroll Opera (Krolloper). Until 1923 properly called the Theater an Königsplatz. thereafter Theater am Platz der Republik, where it occupied a site adjacent to the Reichstag. From 1919 to 1923 the Kroll was leased to the Volksbühne. In 1924 it reopened after reconstruction as a branch of the State Opera. In 1927 it was reconstituted as an artistically independent opera house (though administratively it remained an integral part of the State Opera) with Klemperer as director. Destroyed in the war. Berlin City Opera (Städtische Oper). Originally the Deutsches Opernhaus, it was also often referred to as the Charlottenburg Opera on account of its location in that suburb. Initially it was run as a private enterprise with Die Grosse Volksoper: A purely private undertaking founded in 1919, it |