Editing Leipzig Opera (section)

==Opera House, 1868==
[[File:Leipzig_um_1900.jpg|thumb|right|Neues Theater, circa 1900.]]

The previous theater (the "{{Lang|de|Neues Theater}}") was inaugurated on 28 January 1868 with ''Jubilee Overture'' by [[Carl Maria von Weber]] and the overture for ''[[Iphigénie en Aulide]]'' by [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck]] and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]'s play ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)|Iphigenia in Tauris]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Strad/gYEJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=%22Leipzig%20Opera%22%20%221868%22%20-wikipedia%20Neues%20Theater |title=The Strad: A Monthly Journal for Professionals and Amateurs of All Stringed Instruments Played with the Bow |date=1962 |pages=331 |language=en}}</ref> From 1886 to 1888, [[Gustav Mahler]] was the second conductor; [[Arthur Nikisch]] was his superior. During an [[Strategic bombing|air raid]] in the night of 3 December 1943, part of the [[bombing of Leipzig in World War II]], the theater was destroyed, as were all of Leipzig's theatres.