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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
Current interior
Der Prinz von Homburg is a German-language opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze with a libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann. It was completed in 1958 but premiered on 22 May 1960 in Hamburg.
Hamburg State Opera
…current Staatsoper opened on 15 October 1955 with Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Hamburg continued to devote itself to new works, such as Hans Werner Henze's The Prince of Homburg (1960), Stravinsky's The Flood (1963), Gian Carlo Menotti's Help, Help, the Globolinks! (1968), and Mauricio Kagel's Staatstheater (1971). In 1967…
The composer in 1960