Editing Berlin State Opera (section)

{{Short description|German opera house in Berlin}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name = State Opera Unter den Linden
| native_name = Staatsoper Unter den Linden
| native_name_lang = de
| named_after = [[Unter den Linden]] boulevard
| image = Berlin - Staatsoper Unter den Linden.jpg
| formation = {{start date and age|1743}}
| location = [[Berlin]], Germany
| coords = {{coord|52|31|00|N|13|23|41|E|region:DE-BE_type:landmark|display=inline, title}}
| leader_title = [[Intendant]]
| leader_name = [[Elisabeth Sobotka]]
| leader_title2 = General Music Director
| leader_name2 = [[Christian Thielemann]]
| website = [https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/en/ staatsoper-berlin.de]
}}

The '''Staatsoper Unter den Linden''' ({{lit}} State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the '''Berlin State Opera''' ({{langx|de|link=no|Staatsoper Berlin}}), is a [[listed building]] on [[Unter den Linden]] boulevard in the [[Mitte (locality)|historic center]] of [[Berlin]], Germany. The [[opera house]] was built by order of Prussian king [[Frederick the Great]] from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by [[Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff]] in the [[Palladian architecture|Palladian style]]. Damaged during the [[Bombing of Berlin in World War II|Allied bombing in World War II]], the former [[Kingdom of Prussia|Royal Prussian]] Opera House was rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the [[Bebelplatz|Forum Fridericianum]] square. Nicknamed ''Lindenoper'' in Berlin, it is "the world´s oldest state opera"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://accidentallywesanderson.com/places/berlin-state-opera/#:~:text=The%20Berlin%20State%20Opera%20is%20Germany%E2%80%99s%20first%20freestanding,and%20finally%20Staatsoper%20Unter%20den%20Linden%20in%201918 | title=Berlin State Opera }}</ref> and "the first theater anywhere to be, by itself, a prominent, freestanding monumental building in a city."<ref>Michael Forsyth: ''Buildings for Music. The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day.'' MIT Press, Cambridge 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-262-06089-9}}, p. 104.
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