On May 8, 1945 the war was over for the Berliners. The city lay in ruins, traffic connections were lame and all theaters and museums were destroyed or damaged. The Berlin State Opera no longer existed. Forever the beautiful Unter den Linden house, whose architect Knobelsdorff could not without pride proudly claim: "It equates a splendid palace, stands free from all sides" -that was quite new in Europe! - "and has so much space from the outside that 1000 carriages can easily hold ... The theater is one of the longest and widest in the world. The lodges are spatially and comfortably that they resemble right rooms, and yet offer an unobstructed view of the theatrum. " Generaloberst Bersarin, the first city commander of Berlin, ordered only two weeks after the surrender: "The game is to be set up immediately." He entrusted Heinz Tietjen, the former long-time general director of all the Prussian state theaters, With the preparations for a resumption of work. After the reconstruction carried out under difficult circumstances, the next incision took place in 1961. The Wall divided not only the city, but also the cultural-political interests of East and West. It is all the more amazing what artistic quality the Berlin State Opera was able to offer later in the 1980s. In 1987, the ETERNA label was published on record. It gives a representative picture of the performance of the house and is a historical testimony from the time shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of an artistically new era. A great variety of repertoire with arias, choirs and overtures from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber, Otto Nikolai, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss will be presented. Re-mastered and released on CD for the first time.
