Berlin State Opera

State Opera Unter den Linden
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Named after	Unter den Linden boulevard
Formation	1743
Location	Berlin, Germany;
Coordinates	52°31′00″N 13°23′41″E
Intendant	Matthias Schulz
General Music Director	Christian Thielemann (designate, effective 1 September 2024)
Website	staatsoper-berlin.de

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden (lit. State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (German: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the 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 style. Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, the former Royal Prussian Opera House was rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Forum Fridericianum square. Nicknamed Lindenoper in Berlin, it is "the world´s oldest state opera" and "the first theater anywhere to be, by itself, a prominent, freestanding monumental building in a city."

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