Staatsoper Hannover
The Opera House of Hanover is the home of the genres of opera, ballet and concert of the Lower Saxony State Theatre in Hanover.
History
The Opera House was built as a Royal Court Theatre in the years 1845-52 in late Classicist style on the eastern edge of the old town on the former Windmühlenberg from Wealdensandstein. This was one of the today's Georgstraße bastion of which was part of the Hanoverian town fortifications. Architect of the Opera House was the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves. Construction manager was his employee and later court architect Christian Heinrich Tramm. The first opera ( Mozart's Marriage of Figaro ) took place on September 5, 1852. The Opera House solved the Palace Theatre from the Leine Castle, where took place since 1689 opera performances. There were opera and theater performances in it.
In 1918 it was renamed in opera and theater and was in the hands of the Prussian state. In 1921 it was transferred into the ownership of the city of Hanover. The spectacle drew to 1925 in the kommunalisierte show Castle Theatre, both venues from then on operated as City Theatre Hannover.
During the Second World War, the Opera House on July 26, 1943 taken at Hanover in one of the Allied air attacks by incendiary bombs and burned to the ground from.
After the reconstruction of the historical style ( designed by the Hamburg architect Werner Kallmorgen ) it was on 30 November 1950 with the performance of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier put back into operation. 1950-1964 was followed by further training and additions, including the foyer spaces were designed in the style of postwar modernism. In 1985 a modernization by the architect Dieter Oesterlen. The theater now counts about 1,200 places. After the Second World War, the financial contribution of the state of Lower Saxony was increased gradually at the theaters now referred to as the State Theater Hannover. In 1970 it was renamed the Lower Saxony State Theatre in Hanover, which is in the sole ownership of Lower Saxony since 1992.
Orchestra of the house is the State Orchestra of Hannover.
Personalities
2006, the artist Ralf - Peter Post created a documentary film about the time of his choreographers of the Staatsoper Hannover, Stephan Thoss. Post oversaw the work of the ballet director and his ensemble during the staging of the farewell performance at the Opera House with Le Sacre du Printemps, from the first sketches drawn as step sequences, about the training of ballet and to the premiere. The film was first broadcast on ZDF theater channel 2007.