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Semperoper

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The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). [1]

103 relations: Arabella, Architecture, Baroque, Baroque Revival architecture, Bernard Haitink, Bernd Aldenhoff, Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Cardillac, Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, Carl Maria von Weber, Christian Thielemann, Corinthian order, Daphne (opera), Das Christ-Elflein, Der Freischütz, Der Protagonist, Der Rosenkavalier, Die ägyptische Helena, Die schweigsame Frau, Die toten Augen, Dionysus, Doktor Faust, Dresden, Eclecticism, Edda Moser, Elbe, Elektra (opera), Elisabeth Höngen, Elisabeth Rethberg, Emil von Reznicek, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Erna Sack, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel, Ernst Julius Hähnel, Ernst von Schuch, Eugen d'Albert, Euripides, Eva von der Osten, Fabio Luisi, Ferruccio Busoni, Feuersnot, Firestorm, Friedrich Plaschke, Friedrich Schiller, Fritz Busch, Fritz Reiner, Generalmusikdirektor, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Gottfried Semper, ..., Gottfried von Einem, Hans Pfitzner, Hans Vonk (conductor), Hans Werner Henze, Heinrich Sutermeister, Herbert Blomstedt, Hermann Wedekind, Intermezzo (opera), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Schilling, Joseph Haas, Joseph Keilberth, Karl Böhm, Karl Elmendorff, Kurt Sanderling, Kurt Weill, L'amore medico, List of concert halls, Manfred Trojahn, Margarethe Siems, Marie Wittich, Matthias Pintscher, May Uprising in Dresden, Meta Seinemeyer, Minnie Nast, Molière, Neoclassical architecture, Opera house, Opernhaus am Taschenberg, Othmar Schoeck, Otmar Suitner, Paul Hindemith, Penthesilea (opera), Peter Ruzicka, Quadriga, Renaissance, Renaissance Revival architecture, Richard Strauss, Richard Tauber, Richard Wagner, Rienzi, Rudolf Kempe, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Salome (opera), Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Siegfried Matthus, Sophocles, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tannhäuser (opera), The Flying Dutchman (opera), Therese Malten, Tino Pattiera, William Shakespeare. Expand index (53 more) »

Arabella

Arabella, Op.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Baroque Revival architecture

The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France), was an architectural style of the late 19th century.

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Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (born 4 March 1929) is a Dutch conductor.

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Bernd Aldenhoff

Bernd Aldenhoff (14 June 1908 in Duisburg8 October 1959 in München) was a German Heldentenor.

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Bombing of Dresden in World War II

The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II in the European Theatre.

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Cardillac

Cardillac is an opera by Paul Hindemith in three acts and four scenes.

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Carl Gottlieb Reissiger

Carl Gottlieb Reißiger (also Karl Reissiger, Carl Reissiger, Karl Reißiger) (31 January 1798, Belzig – 7 November 1859, Dresden) was a German Kapellmeister and composer.

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.

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Christian Thielemann

Christian Thielemann (born 1 April 1959 in Berlin) is a German conductor.

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Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.

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Daphne (opera)

Daphne, Op. 82, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, subtitled "Bucolic Tragedy in One Act".

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Das Christ-Elflein

Das Christ-Elflein (The Little Elf of Christ) is an opera in two acts by Hans Pfitzner to a German-language libretto by Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach.

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Der Freischütz

, Op. 77, J. 277, (usually translated as The Marksman or The Freeshooter) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind.

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Der Protagonist

Der Protagonist (The Protagonist) is an opera in one act by Kurt Weill op.

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Der Rosenkavalier

(The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op.

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Die ägyptische Helena

Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen), Op. 75, is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Die schweigsame Frau

Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), Op.

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Die toten Augen

Die toten Augen (or The Dead Eyes) is an opera (called a Bühnendichtung or 'stage poem' by the composer) with a prologue and one act by Eugen d'Albert to a libretto in German by Hanns Heinz Ewers and Marc Henry (Achille Georges d'Ailly-Vaucheret) after Henry's own 1897 play Les yeux morts.

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Dionysus

Dionysus (Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Doktor Faust

Doktor Faust is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer himself, based on the myth of Faust.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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Eclecticism

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.

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Edda Moser

Edda Moser (born 27 October 1938) is a German coloratura soprano.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Elbe; Low German: Elv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Elektra (opera)

Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra.

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Elisabeth Höngen

Elisabeth Höngen (7 December 1906 – 7 August 1997) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano and singing-actress.

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Elisabeth Rethberg

The German soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (22 September 1894 – 6 June 1976) was an opera singer of international repute active from the period of the First World War through to the early 1940s.

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Emil von Reznicek

Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek (4 May 1860, Vienna – 2 August 1945, Berlin) was an Austrian composer of Czech ancestry.

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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher.

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Erna Sack

Erna Dorothea Luise Sack (née Weber, 6 February 18982 March 1972) was a German coloratura soprano, known as the German Nightingale for her high vocal range.

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Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Hans A. Schumann-Heink (1910-?) is her grandson, he was born out of wedlock and she raised him.

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Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel

Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel (15 December 1804 – 21 January 1861) was a German sculptor.

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Ernst Julius Hähnel

Ernst Julius Hähnel (9 March 1811, Dresden – 22 May 1891, Dresden) was a German sculptor and Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

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Ernst von Schuch

Ernst Edler von Schuch, born Ernst Gottfried Schuch (23 November 1846, Graz – 10 May 1914, Niederlößnitz/Radebeul Dresden) was an Austrian conductor who became famous through his working collaborations with Richard Strauss at the Dresden Court Opera.

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Eugen d'Albert

Eugen (originally Eugène) Francois Charles d'Albert (10 April 18643 March 1932) was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.

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Euripides

Euripides (Εὐριπίδης) was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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Eva von der Osten

Eva Helga Bertha von der Osten (19 August 1881 – 5 May 1936) was a German soprano.

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Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi (born 17 January 1959) is an Italian conductor.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Feuersnot

(Need for (or lack of) fire), Op.

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Firestorm

A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system.

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Friedrich Plaschke

Friedrich Plaschke (7 January 1875 – 4 February 1952) was a Czech operatic bass-baritone.

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Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.

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Fritz Busch

Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor.

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Fritz Reiner

Frederick Martin "Fritz" Reiner (December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.

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Generalmusikdirektor

Generalmusikdirektor (GMD, general music director) is a German title for the artistic director of an orchestra, an institution or a town.

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Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli (2 November 1946 – 20 April 2001) was an Italian conductor and composer.

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Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper (29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841.

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Gottfried von Einem

Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer.

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Hans Pfitzner

Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist.

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Hans Vonk (conductor)

Hans Vonk (18 June 1942 – 29 August 2004) was a Dutch conductor.

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Heinrich Sutermeister

Heinrich Sutermeister (12 August 1910, Feuerthalen – 16 March 1995, Vaux-sur-Morges) was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera Romeo und Julia.

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Herbert Blomstedt

Herbert Blomstedt (born July 11, 1927) is a conductor laureate of the San Francisco Symphony.

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Hermann Wedekind

Hermann Wedekind (18 July 1910, Coesfeld, Westphalia – 16 January 1998, Wadern) was an artistic director at Festspiele Balver Höhle in the years 1985 - 1996.

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Intermezzo (opera)

Intermezzo, Op. 72, is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to his own German libretto, described as a (bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes).

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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Johannes Schilling

Johannes Schilling (23 June 1828 in Mittweida – 21 March 1910 in Klotzsche near Dresden) was a German sculptor.

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Joseph Haas

Joseph Haas (19 March 1879 – 30 March 1960) was a German late romantic composer and music teacher.

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Joseph Keilberth

Joseph Keilberth (19 April 1908 – 20 July 1968) was a German conductor who specialised in opera.

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Karl Böhm

Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 in Graz – 14 August 1981 in Salzburg) was an Austrian conductor.

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Karl Elmendorff

Karl Eduard Maria Elmendorff (October 25, 1891 – October 21, 1962) was a German opera conductor.

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Kurt Sanderling

Kurt Sanderling, CBE (19 September 1912 – 18 September 2011) was a German conductor.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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L'amore medico

L'amore medico (Doctor Cupid, also known as The Love Doctor) is an opera in two acts by composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari.

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List of concert halls

A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

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Manfred Trojahn

Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor and writer.

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Margarethe Siems

Margarethe Siems (20 December 1879 – 13 April 1952) was a German operatic soprano and voice teacher.

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Marie Wittich

Marie Wittich (27 May 1868 – 4 August 1931) was a German operatic soprano.

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Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher (born 29 January 1971) is a German composer and conductor.

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May Uprising in Dresden

The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848.

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Meta Seinemeyer

Meta Seinemeyer (September 5, 1895 – August 19, 1929) was a German opera singer with a spinto soprano voice.

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Minnie Nast

Minnie Nast (10 October 1874 – 20 June 1956) was a German soprano.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

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Opernhaus am Taschenberg

The Opernhaus am Taschenberg (Opera house at the Taschenberg) was a theatre in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, built from 1664 to 1667 by Wolf Caspar von Klengel.

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Othmar Schoeck

Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss composer and conductor.

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Otmar Suitner

Otmar Suitner (16 May 1922 – 8 January 2010) was an Austrian conductor who spent most of his professional career in East Germany.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Penthesilea (opera)

Penthesilea is a one-act opera by Othmar Schoeck, to a German-language libretto by the composer, after the work of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist.

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Peter Ruzicka

Peter Ruzicka (born 3 July 1948) is a German composer and conductor of classical music.

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Quadriga

A quadriga (Latin quadri-, four, and iugum, yoke) is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast (the Roman Empire's equivalent of Ancient Greek tethrippon).

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Renaissance Revival architecture

Renaissance Revival (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a broad designation that covers many 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian (see Greek Revival) nor Gothic (see Gothic Revival) but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rienzi

(Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835).

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Rudolf Kempe

Rudolf Kempe (born 14 June 1910 in Dresden, died 12 May 1976 in Zürich) was a German conductor.

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Rudolf Wagner-Régeny

Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (28 August 1903, Szászrégen, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Reghin, Romania) – 18 September 1969, Berlin) was a composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Salome (opera)

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

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Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Semyon Mayevich Bychkov (Семён Маевич Бычков,; born November 30, 1952) is a Soviet-born conductor.

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Siegfried Matthus

Siegfried Matthus (born 13 April 1934, in Mallenuppen (now Задорожье Zadorozhye, Ozyorsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast), Landkreis Darkehmen, East Prussia) is a German composer and opera director living in Berlin and is one of Germany's most often performed contemporary composers.

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Sophocles

Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς, Sophoklēs,; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.

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Staatskapelle Dresden

The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (known colloquially as the Staatskapelle Dresden) is a German orchestra based in Dresden.

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Tannhäuser (opera)

Tannhäuser (full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, "Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends; Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest.

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The Flying Dutchman (opera)

The Flying Dutchman (German), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner.

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Therese Malten

Therese Malten was the stage name of Therese Müller (21 June 1855 – 2 January 1930), a well-known German dramatic soprano.

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Tino Pattiera

Tino Pattiera (27 June 1890 – 24 April 1966) was a Croatian-Dalmatian Italian tenor, born in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semperoper

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