Rienzi the German Empire and making it great once more." The original performance version of "Rienzi" was lost in the Dresden bombing of 1945, and the manuscript (on which it had been based) was lost in Berlin in 1945. No full copies had been made of either version, as far as is known. However, "Rienzi" was never established by the composer into a finalized version, so all performances of it since 1945 have been reconstructions. A vocal score of the early 1840s, based on Wagner's draft, remains as the only existing primary source. Two surviving full scores made in Dresden in
The world (concert hall) by architects V. A. Butuzov, N. S. Strigalova, M. I. Bogdanov, and engineers L. Bogatkin, V. Kotov, and A. Levenshtein. During the reconstruction only the original brick walls were preserved. The new cinema "Mir" (translating as "world") was opened on February 28, 1958 as a Kinopanorama cinema. In 1960, it was converted into a larger widescreen cinema with 1,220 seats. In 2006 the cinema was again reconstructed, after which it opened as a concert hall for 923 spectators. The last reconstruction was carried out in 2017, after which the world became a concert and entertainment venue. The building is brick,