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The Bavarian State Opera (German: Bayerische Staatsoper) is an opera company based in Munich, Germany. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra.

1 History
2 Opera general directors
3 General Music Directors
4 Famous World Premieres
5 External links

History

The opera company which was founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy has been in existence since 1653. In 1753 the Residence Theatre was opened as major stage. While opera performances were also held in the Prinzregententheater (completed in 1901), the company's home base is the National Theatre Munich on Max-Joseph-Platz.

Sir Peter Jonas became the Staatsoper Staatsintendant (General Director) in 1993, the first British Intendant of any major German speaking Opera House. Since 1998 Zubin Mehta served as music director of the Bavarian State Opera and Bavarian State Orchestra. He was succeeded by Kent Nagano in 2006.

Opera general directors

1867–1893 Karl von Perfall
1895–1905 Ernst von Possart
1912–1918 Clemens von Franckenstein
1924–1934 Clemens von Franckenstein
1937–1940 Clemens Krauss
1947–1952 Georg Hartmann

1952–1967 Rudolf Hartmann
1967–1976 Günther Rennert
1977–1982 August Everding
1983–1993 Wolfgang Sawallisch
1993–2006 Peter Jonas
2006–present Kent Nagano (Interim)

General Music Directors

1836–1867 Franz Lachner
1867–1869 Hans von Bülow
1870–1877 Franz Wüllner
1872–1896 Hermann Levi
1894–1896 Richard Strauss
1901–1903 Hermann Zumpe
1904–1911 Felix Mottl
1913–1922 Bruno Walter
1922–1935 Hans Knappertsbusch
1937–1944 Clemens Krauss

1945 Hans Knappertsbusch
1946–1952 Georg Solti
1952–1954 Rudolf Kempe
1956–1958 Ferenc Fricsay
1959–1968 Joseph Keilberth
1971–1992 Wolfgang Sawallisch
1992–1998 Peter Schneider, interim
1998–2006 Zubin Mehta
2006–present Kent Nagano

Famous World Premieres

2 October 1753, Catone in Utica by Giovanni Battista Ferrandini and Metastasio (Residence Theater)
13 January 1775, La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Petrosellini(?) (Residence Theater)
29 January 1781, Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giambattista Varesco (Residence Theater)
1 February 1782, Semiramide by Antonio Salieri and Metastasio (Residence Theater)
27 January 1807, Iphigenie in Aulis by Franz Danzi and Karl Reger (Residence Theater)
4 June 1811, Abu Hassan by Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Carl Hiemer (Residence Theater)
23 December 1812, Jephthas Gelübde by Giacomo Meyerbeer and Aloys Schreiber (Residence Theater)
9 November 1817, Teolinde by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Residence Theater)
7 October 1849, Benvenuto Cellini by Franz Lachner, Henri-Auguste Barbier and Léon de Wailly (German by: ?)
10 June 1865, Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
21 June 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner
22 September 1869, Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
26 June 1870, Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
29 June 1888, Die Feen by Richard Wagner
23 January 1897, Königskinder (Melodrama edition) by Engelbert Humperdinck and Elsa Bernstein
10 October 1897, Sarema by Alexander von Zemlinsky, Adolf von Zemlinszky and Arnold Schoenberg
22 January 1899, Der Bärenhäuter by Siegfried Wagner
27 November 1903, Le donne curiose by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Luigi Sugana (German by Hermann Teibler) (Residence Theater)
19 March 1906, I quattro rusteghi (Die vier Grobiane) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Giuseppe Pizzolato (German by Hermann Teibler)
11 December 1906, Das Christelflein by Hans Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach
4 December 1909, Il segreto di Susanna (Susannens Geheimnis) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Enrico Golisciani (German by Max Kalbeck)
28 March 1916, Der Ring des Polykrates by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Leo Feld and Julyus Korngold and; Violanta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julyus Korngold
12 June 1917, Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner (Prinzregententheater)
30 November 1920, Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels (by Aristophanes)
15 November 1924, Don Gil von den grünen Hosen by Walter Braunfels (by Tirso de Molina)
12 November 1931, Das Herz by Hans Pfitzner and Hans Mahner-Mons
24 July 1938, Friedenstag by Richard Strauss, Joseph Gregor and Stefan Zweig
5 February 1939, Der Mond by Carl Orff
28 October 1942, Capriccio by Richard Strauss and Clemens Krauss
29 March 1956, Don Juan de Manara by Henri Tomasi (Prinzregententheater)
11 August 1957, Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith
27 November 1963, Die Verlobung in San Domingo by Werner Egk (by Heinrich von Kleist)
1 August 1972, Sim Tjong by Yun I-sang and Harald Kunz
9 July 1978, Lear by Aribert Reimann and Claus H. Henneberg
10 May 1981, Lou Salomé by Giuseppe Sinopoli and Karl Dietrich Gräwe
22 July 1985 Le Roi Bérenger (König Bérenger I.) by Heinrich Sutermeister (by Eugène Ionesco)
8 November 1985, Night by Lorenzo Ferrero and Peter Wehran (by Novalis)
25 January 1986, Belshazar by Volker David Kirchner and Harald Weirich
7 July 1986, Troades by Aribert Reimann and Gerd Albrecht (by Euripides and Franz Werfel)
6 July 1991, Ubu Rex by Krzysztof Penderecki (by Alfred Jarry)
1 July 1996, Schlachhof 5 by Hans-Jürgen von Bose (by Kurt Vonnegut)
24 May 1998, Was ihr wollt by Manfred Trojahn and Claus H. Henneberg
28 June 2000, KANON für geschlossene Gesellschaft by Ruedi Häusermann (Cuvilliéstheater)
30 October 2000, Bernarda Albas Haus by Aribert Reimann (by Federico García Lorca)
27 June 2002, K.Projekt 12 / 14 by Hans-Jürgen von Bose (by Franz Kafka) (Cuvilliéstheater)
17 July 2003, Das Gesicht im Spiegel by Jörg Widmann and Roland Schimmelpfennig (Cuvilliéstheater)
27 October 2006, Das Gehege by Wolfgang Rihm and Botho Strauß
30 June 2007, Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin and David Henry Hwang

External links

Bayerische Staatsoper official website
Bayerisches Staatsorchester history (German)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester at the Bach Cantatas Website

Bayerische Staatsoper Directors

Karl von Perfall (1867) • Ernst von Possart (1895) • Clemens von Franckenstein (1912) • Clemens Krauss (1937) • Georg Hartmann (1947) • Rudolf Hartmann (1952) • Günther Rennert (1967) • August Everding (1977) • Wolfgang Sawallisch (1983) • Peter Jonas (1993) • Kent Nagano (2006)