Daniel Barenboim is the conductor for life of the Berlin State Opera whose permanent home is on which boulevard in the Mitte district of the city?
"on Kurfürstendamm. With a seating capacity of 1,895 and a stage floor of 2,854 square metres (30,720 square feet), the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin Mitte is the largest show palace in Europe. Berlin has three major opera houses: the Deutsche Oper, the Berlin State Opera, and the Komische Oper. The Berlin State Opera on Unter den Linden opened in 1742 and is the oldest of the three. Its current musical director is Daniel Barenboim. The Komische Oper has traditionally specialized in operettas and is located at Unter den Linden as well. The Deutsche Oper opened in 1912 in Charlottenburg. During the"
"world and German premieres of works by Richard Wagner, Felix Mendelssohn, and Otto Nicolai. The orchestra's music director, the ""Staatskapellmeister"", holds the same post with the Berlin State Opera. The orchestra was in the eastern part of Berlin, and thus was part of East Germany from 1945 to 1990. The current ""Staatskapellmeister"" of the orchestra and the opera has been Daniel Barenboim since 1992. Barenboim has had the title of ""conductor for life"" for the ensemble since 2000. In July 2013, the orchestra made its first-ever appearances at The Proms, performing the four operas of ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", the"
"Performance: Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra): Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra): In 2009 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award for Classical Music as the most important musician in the last decade in his country. In 2012, he was voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim, KBE (; ; born 15 November 1942) is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain. The current general music director of the Berlin State Opera and"
"Oranienburger Straße Oranienburger Straße is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is located in the borough of Mitte, north of the River Spree, and runs south-east from Friedrichstraße to Hackescher Markt. The street is popular with tourists and Berliners for its nightlife with numerous restaurants and bars. Formerly a centre of Jewish life in Berlin, the street contains the restored New Synagogue. Another tourist landmark was the Kunsthaus Tacheles, an alternative art center and night club. Oranienburger Straße is also known for relatively prominent street prostitution, which is legal in Germany. There are also two lesser"
"Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim, KBE (; ; born 15 November 1942) is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain. The current general music director of the Berlin State Opera and the Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan. Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, including"
"den Linden"". In 1992, the Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim was appointed Music Director. In 2000, the orchestra (according to its official website) elected Barenboim ""conductor for life."" During the 2002 ""Festtage"", he led a Wagner cycle in ten parts, a production created in collaboration with director Harry Kupfer. Since 2009, the Berlin State Opera has been undergoing considerable renovation work led by German architect HG Merz. The roof of the opera building was raised and the proscenium prolonged to improve the acoustics. Other renovation and extension works include the director's building, the below-ground connection building and the depot building. The"
"division of the city from 1961 to 1989 it was the only major opera house in West Berlin. There are seven symphony orchestras in Berlin. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the preeminent orchestras in the world; it is housed in the Berliner Philharmonie near Potsdamer Platz on a street named for the orchestra's longest-serving conductor, Herbert von Karajan. The current principal conductor is Simon Rattle. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 as the orchestra for East Berlin, since the Philharmonic was based in West Berlin. Its current principal conductor is Lothar Zagrosek. The Haus der Kulturen der"
"Westens (built in 1895). Contemporary dance can be seen at the ""Radialsystem V"". The Tempodrom is host to concerts and circus inspired entertainment. It also houses a multi-sensory spa experience. The Admiralspalast in Mitte has a vibrant program of variety and music events. There are seven symphony orchestras in Berlin. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the preeminent orchestras in the world; it is housed in the Berliner Philharmonie near Potsdamer Platz on a street named for the orchestra's longest-serving conductor, Herbert von Karajan. The current principal conductor is Simon Rattle. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 as"
"Central Bus station ""Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof"" (ZOB). Westend (Berlin) Westend is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Germany. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough. Originally a mansion colony, it is today a quite densely settled, still affluent territory adjacent to Berlin's inner city in the east. Westend is situated west of Berlin's inner city on Spandauer Berg, the northern peak of the sandy Teltow plateau between the river valleys of Spree and Havel. It is centered on Theodor-Heuss-Platz, a large square, from where the Heerstraße arterial road,"
"the larger borough. Mitte (German for ""middle"", ""centre"") is located in the central part of Berlin along the Spree River. It borders on Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in the west, Reinickendorf in the north, Pankow in the east, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in the southeast, and Tempelhof-Schöneberg in the southwest. In the middle of the Spree lies Museum Island (""Museumsinsel"") with its museums and Berlin Cathedral (""Berliner Dom""). The central square in Mitte is Alexanderplatz with the prominent Fernsehturm (TV tower), Germany's highest building, and the large railway station with connections to many subway (U-Bahn), tramway (Straßenbahn), city trains (S-Bahn) and buses. There are some important"
"Mühlendamm Mühlendamm (Mill Dam) is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It runs from the hictoric Cölln and Fischerinsel quarters to the Molkenmarkt square of Alt-Berlin via the Mühlendammbrücke (Mill Dam Bridge) crossing the Spree river. Named after several watermills at the site, a historic causeway was first laid out at this location about 1200 and became the nucleus of the late medieval city foundation. The current prestressed concrete bridge was built in 1968. It is part of an east–west road link to Berlin's city centre and the Bundesstraße 1 highway. The bridge links Gertraudenstraße,"
"Bebelplatz The Bebelplatz (formerly colloquially Opernplatz) is a public square in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The square is located on the south side of the Unter den Linden boulevard, a major east-west thoroughfare in the city centre. It is bounded to the east by the State Opera building (hence its prewar name), to the west by buildings of Humboldt University, and to the southeast by St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the first Catholic church built in Prussia after the Reformation. The square is named after August Bebel, a founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany"
"Berliner Philharmonie The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The building forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions close to Potsdamer Platz. The Philharmonie consists of two venues, the Grand Hall (""Großer Saal"") with 2,440 seats and the Chamber Music Hall (""Kammermusiksaal"") with 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller hall was opened in the 1980s, some"
"Mehringdamm The Mehringdamm is a street in southern Kreuzberg, Berlin. In the north it starts at Mehringbrücke and ends - with its southern most houses already belonging to Tempelhof locality - on Platz der Luftbrücke. It is the historical southbound Berlin-Halle highway, now forming the federal route 96. The main junction of Mehringdamm is with the 19th-century ring road around Berlin's inner city, named Yorckstraße west, and Gneisenaustraße east of Mehringdamm. The highway from Cölln (since 1710 a part of Berlin) to Halle upon Saale and Leipzig traverses the quarter of Tempelhofer Vorstadt (Bezirksregion II {borough region II} of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg)"
"of an American orchestra. Since 1992, Barenboim has been music director of the Berlin State Opera and the Staatskapelle Berlin, succeeding in maintaining the independent status of the State Opera. He has tried to maintain the orchestra's traditional sound and style. In autumn 2000 he was made conductor for life of the Staatskapelle Berlin. On 15 May 2006 Barenboim was named principal guest conductor of La Scala opera house, in Milan, after Riccardo Muti's resignation. He subsequently became music director of La Scala in 2011. In 2006, Barenboim presented the BBC Reith Lectures, presenting a series of five lectures titled"
"by , Berlin, in 1965, and renovated in 1992, 2012 and 2016. It has four manuals and 91 stops. The pipes of the choir organs and the Tuba 16' and Tuba 8' stops are not assigned to any group and can be played from all four manuals and the pedals. Berliner Philharmonie The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor."
"Straße des 17. Juni The Straße des 17. Juni (, ), is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is the western continuation of the boulevard Unter den Linden. It runs east–west through the Tiergarten, a large park to the west of the city centre. At the eastern end of the street is the Brandenburg Gate, it then passes the Soviet War Memorial before passing either side of Victory Column (""Siegessäule"") in the middle of the park, and out of the park through the Charlottenburg Gate, terminating about half a kilometre later at ""Ernst-Reuter-Platz"". The street is"
"Unter den Linden Unter den Linden (, ""under the linden trees"") is a boulevard in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Running from the City Palace to Brandenburg Gate, it is named after the linden (lime) trees that line the grassed pedestrian mall on the median and the two broad carriageways. The avenue links numerous Berlin sights and landmarks and rivers for sight-seeing. Unter den Linden runs east–west from the site of the Stadtschloss royal palace at the Lustgarten park, where the demolished Palace of the Republic once stood, to Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate. Eastward"
"the boulevard crosses the Spree river at Berlin Cathedral and continues as Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. The western continuation behind Brandenburg Gate is Straße des 17. Juni. Major north–south streets crossing Unter den Linden are Friedrichstraße and Wilhelmstrasse. Unter den Linden, which sits at the heart of the historic section of Berlin, developed from a bridle path laid out by Elector John George of Brandenburg in the 16th century to reach his hunting grounds in the Tiergarten. It was replaced by a boulevard of linden trees planted in 1647, extending from the city palace to the gates of the city, by order of"
"and one of the leaders of the Spartacist League, who was killed following the unsuccessful Communist Spartacist uprising in Berlin in 1919. It is one of the few streets in East Berlin named for a prominent Communist that has retained its name following the reunification of Germany in 1990. Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. The street runs north from ""Dircksenstraße"" in the inner eastern part of the city, to ""Torstraße"" where it becomes ""Schönhauser Allee"". The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is the Volksbühne (""people's theatre"") at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World"
"venues in the world for music and/or opera, as of 2004. Konzerthaus Berlin The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of Berlin housing the German orchestra Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Built as a theatre from 1818 to 1821 under the name of the Schauspielhaus Berlin, later also known as the Theater am Gendarmenmarkt and Komödie, its usage changed to a concert hall after the Second World War and its name changed to its present one in 1994. The building's predecessor, the ""National-Theater"" in the Friedrichstadt suburb, was destroyed by fire in 1817."
"Westend (Berlin) Westend is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Germany. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough. Originally a mansion colony, it is today a quite densely settled, still affluent territory adjacent to Berlin's inner city in the east. Westend is situated west of Berlin's inner city on Spandauer Berg, the northern peak of the sandy Teltow plateau between the river valleys of Spree and Havel. It is centered on Theodor-Heuss-Platz, a large square, from where the Heerstraße arterial road, part of the Bundesstraße 2 and"
"Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. The street runs north from ""Dircksenstraße"" in the inner eastern part of the city, to ""Torstraße"" where it becomes ""Schönhauser Allee"". The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is the Volksbühne (""people's theatre"") at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World War II and Horst-Wessel-Platz during the Nazi period). Before World War II, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße was not a separate street, but a continuation of ""Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße"", the rest of which is now called Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. During the years of the German Democratic Republic it was named for Rosa Luxemburg, a leading Marxist theoretician"
"Bellevue Palace (Germany) Bellevue Palace (), located in Berlin's Tiergarten district, has been the official residence of the President of Germany since 1994. It is situated on the banks of the Spree river, near the Berlin Victory Column, along the northern edge of the Großer Tiergarten park. Its namethe French for ""beautiful view""derives from its scenic prospect over the Spree's course. Designed by architect Michael Philipp Boumann, ""Schloss Bellevue"" was erected in 1786 as a summer residence for Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, ""Herrenmeister"" (""Master of the Knights"") of the ""Johanniterorden"" (""Order of Saint John"") and younger brother of King"
"Oranienburger Vorstadt Oranienburger Vorstadt is a historic district of Berlin in what is now the northwestern part of Mitte and the adjacent Gesundbrunnen area, in the modern Mitte borough. The former suburb was located between the Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal in the west (bordering Moabit) and the Brunnenstraße arterial road in the east. In the south it was confined by the 18th century Berlin Customs Wall (today marked by Torstraße and Hannoversche Straße), in the north it bordered on the Wedding area along the Panke River. The district derived its name from the Oranienburger Tor, a city gate in the Customs"
"the tracks of the Berlin tram ""M2"" line. The Ringbahn of the Berlin S-Bahn network stops at Berlin Prenzlauer Allee station. Prenzlauer Allee Prenzlauer Allee is a major avenue in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital Berlin and one of the main thoroughfares of the north-eastern Pankow borough. The arterial road connects the centre of former East Berlin at Alexanderplatz via Karl-Liebknecht-Straße with the far north-eastern districts and the orbital motorway Berliner Ring (BAB 10) via the Bundesautobahn 114. It starts at ""Prenzlauer Tor"", formerly the site of a historic city gate on the road to Prenzlau, leading"
"northeast, passing the Fernsehturm and Alexanderplatz through the old Königsstadt quarter to the border of Mitte borough. There, at the place of the old ""Prenzlauer Tor"" (“Prenzlau gate”) it crosses Torstraße and Mollstraße and continues as Prenzlauer Allee to the north of the city. At its start, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße passes two of the most prominent sites of Berlin, the evangelical Berlin Cathedral (official address: Am Lustgarten 1) and the former Palast der Republik (official address: Schloßplatz 1), which is currently being dismantled. In the future, probably starting in 2009 , the Berlin City Palace will be rebuilt at this place. The"
"Prenzlauer Allee Prenzlauer Allee is a major avenue in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital Berlin and one of the main thoroughfares of the north-eastern Pankow borough. The arterial road connects the centre of former East Berlin at Alexanderplatz via Karl-Liebknecht-Straße with the far north-eastern districts and the orbital motorway Berliner Ring (BAB 10) via the Bundesautobahn 114. It starts at ""Prenzlauer Tor"", formerly the site of a historic city gate on the road to Prenzlau, leading uphill northwards to the border with the Pankow district, where it continues as ""Prenzlauer Promenade"". In between the dual carriageway run"
"Midway along the street is a sculpture, entitled ""Berlin"", that expresses the ""broken"" nature of the city during the Cold War. Tauentzienstraße Tauentzienstraße (colloquially: ""der Tauentzien"") is a major shopping street in the City West area of Berlin, Germany. With a length of about it runs between two important squares, Wittenbergplatz in the east and Breitscheidplatz in the west, where it is continued by the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. While the eastern half belongs to the Schöneberg district, the western part (beyond Nürnberger Straße) is in Charlottenburg. The broad street was laid out in the manner of a Parisian boulevard according to"
"logical location for a new central station. The Berlin Hauptbahnhof is located at the Moabit district, at the Mitte constituency. In the north is the Europaplatz and Invalidenstraße whereas for the south it leads to Washingtonplatz and the Spree. South of the Hauptbahnhof, connects to the Spreebogenpark, together with Bundeskanzleramt and Paul-Löbe-Haus. In the east, it leads to the Mitte district, while it also extends to the Humboldthafen. The Berlin Hauptbahnhof is part of the mushroom concept that was being made in Berlin, in which the station forms as a connecting point for converging and intersecting lines, of different modes"
"Breitscheidplatz and Tauentzienstraße, with supra-local importance. The Berliner Börse (""Berlin Stock Exchange"") is housed in the ""Ludwig-Erhard-Haus"" designed by Nicholas Grimshaw at Fasanenstraße 85 in Berlin-Charlottenburg near Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (German: ""Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin"") (""KPM"") is also situated in Charlottenburg, near Berlin-Tiergarten Station The Messe Berlin (Exhibition Grounds/Trade Fair Center) is situated in Berlin-Westend Air Berlin had its headquarters in Building 2 of the Airport Bureau Center in Charlottenburg-Nord. Air Berlin employed 1,200 employees at its headquarters. Germania has its headquarters in Charlottenburg-Nord. Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is the fourth borough of Berlin, formed in an"
"Konzerthaus Berlin The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of Berlin housing the German orchestra Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Built as a theatre from 1818 to 1821 under the name of the Schauspielhaus Berlin, later also known as the Theater am Gendarmenmarkt and Komödie, its usage changed to a concert hall after the Second World War and its name changed to its present one in 1994. The building's predecessor, the ""National-Theater"" in the Friedrichstadt suburb, was destroyed by fire in 1817. It had been designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans and inaugurated on"
"street is also serviced by the tram line ""M2"" with stops at Mollstraße and Memhardstraße. ""M2"" connects Alexanderplatz and Heinersdorf (Pankow borough). Karl-Liebknecht-Straße Karl-Liebknecht-Straße is a major street in the central Mitte district of the German capital Berlin. It is named after Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany. The street connects the Unter den Linden boulevard with the Prenzlauer Allee arterial road leading to the northern city limits. Although part of the street dates back to medieval times, most of the buildings at its side were built in the 1960s, when East Berlin's"