OPERNHAUS, Hannover, Germany. Postcard (1980s)

OPERNHAUS
Hannover

Postcard published by Verlag Schöning + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck, Nº Hann 1144 (1980s).

The Hanover Opera House (Opernhaus or Niedersächsische Staatsoper) was built between 1845 and 1852 in the late Classical style. The architect was Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, and the foreman was Christian Heinrich Tramm, who later became the court architect. It opened on September 5, 1852, with Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. The Opera House replaced the Leineschloss Palace Theatre, where operas had been performed since 1689. The Opera House served as the Royal Theatre until 1918, when it became a Prussian State Theatre. In 1921, it was converted into a local performance venue. During the bombing of Hanover in World War II, specifically on 26 July 1943, it was hit by incendiary bombs, which left only the exterior walls intact. After the reconstruction in the historical style by the architect Werner Kallmorgen, the Opera House was reopened with Richard Strauss's The Knight of the Rose on 30 November 1950.

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