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When you have experienced an opera evening at the »Royal Court Opera«, you would not only have enjoyed the traditionally excellent performance, you would have also enjoyed the visit to one of the world´s most beautiful opera houses.

Frederick II commissioned his friend, Georg Wenzeslas von Knobelsdorff with the »enchanted castle«. Construction work began in July 1741 with what was designed to be the first part of a »Forum Fredericianum«.

A full ten months before its actual completion, the monarch´s impatience precipitated the opening of the Court Opera with a performance of Carl Heinrich Graun´s cleopatra e cesare on December 7, 1742. This event marked the beginning of the successful, 250 year old cooperation between Staatsoper and Staatskapelle.

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