Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Barenboim receiving the 2019 Konrad Adenauer Prize from the City of Cologne
Daniel Barenboim, age 11, with composer Eithan Lustig and the Gadna Youth orchestra (1953)
Barenboim's wedding in Jerusalem, 1967. Beno Rothenberg, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
U.S. concert performance at age 15 (January 1958)
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden, also known as the Berlin State Opera, is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the Palladian style. Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, the former Royal Prussian Opera House was rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Forum Fridericianum square. Nicknamed Lindenoper in Berlin, it is "the world´s oldest state opera" and "the first theater anywhere to be, by itself, a prominent, freestanding monumental building in a city."
Berlin State Opera
The Court Opera, about 1745
Interior, rebuilt after the fire in 1843
Auditorium, view to the stage
