The Hamburg State Opera is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since the 2025/26 season, the Intendant of the company is Tobias Kratzer, and the Gene
The Opera's front façade on Dammtorstraße in 2010
The Stadt-Theater, built in 1827
The same building, redecorated in 1890, destroyed in 1943
Gänsemarkt is a public square in Hamburg, Germany, located in the Neustadt quarter. The triangular urban square is accessible by streets of Jungfernstieg from the east, Dammtorstraße and Valentinskamp
Lessing Monument on the Gänsemarkt
A Hamburg tram on Gänsemarkt in the 1970s, the Ufa-Palast cinema to the right