Staatsoper Hannover is an opera house

Opera house

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 and opera

Opera

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 company in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany

Germany

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.

During the course of its season from September to June, Staatsoper Hannover mounts productions of a variety of operas from the standard operatic repertoire as well as 20th century works.

The home base of Staatsoper Hannover is the Hanover Opera House, a theater built in classical style between 1845 and 1852 based on a plan drawn by Laves. The building was badly damaged in World War II

World War II

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 and rebuilt in 1948. In 1985, the acoustics

Acoustics

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 were improved, and between 1996 and 1998 the stage facilities were renovated.

General Music Directors (GMD)

• Rudolf Krasselt (1924–1943)
• Franz Konwitschny
  Franz Konwitschny
  Franz Konwitschny was a German conductor and violist.He started his career on the viola, playing in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler. In 1925, he moved to Vienna, where he played the viola with the Fitzner Quartet. He also began teaching at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium...
  
   (1945–1949)
• Johannes Schüler (1949–1960)
• Günter Wich (1961–1965)
• George Alexander Albrecht
  George Alexander Albrecht
  George Alexander Albrecht is a German conductor. His brother Ernst Albrecht is a politician. His son is the conductor Marc Albrecht....
  
   (1965–1993)
• Christof Perick
  Christof Perick
  Christof Prick , who uses the name Christof Perick in English-speaking countries, is a German orchestra conductor. His father was the concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonic.Perick's conducting posts include:...
  
   (1993–1996)
• Andreas Delfs
  Andreas Delfs
  Andreas Delfs is a German conductor. He is the conductor laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Honolulu Symphony.-Biography:...
  
   (1996–2000)
• Hans Urbanek (2000–2001)
• Lü Shao-chia
  Lü Shao-chia
  -Biography:Born in Taiwan, Lü studied piano at an early age. Initiated by Taiwanese conductor Chen Chiu-sen, he later turned to conducting and went on to Indiana University and Vienna Hochschule für Musik. In 1998, he was accepted in conducting course held by maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky in...
  
   (2001–2006)
• Wolfgang Bozic (2006–present)
• Karen Kamensek (in German)

External links

• Staatsoper Hannover website