Berlin State Opera latter will house the new rehearsal center. The house was reopened in 2017 with premieres of Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel" and Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" on one weekend. Berlin State Opera The Berlin State Opera () is a German opera company based in Berlin. Its permanent home is the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, commonly referred to as "Lindenoper", in the central Mitte district, which also hosts the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra. Originally the "Hofoper" (court opera) from 1742, it was named "Königliches Opernhaus" (Royal Opera House) in 1844, and "Staatsoper Unter den Linden" in 1918. From 1949 to 1990 it housed
Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde ("Tristan and Isolde", or "Tristan and Isolda", or "Tristran and Ysolt") is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance "Tristan" by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting. Wagner referred to the work not as an opera, but called it "eine Handlung" (literally "a drama", "a plot" or "an action"), which was the equivalent of