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13-608: Plans to build an opera house in Bielefeld were laid in 1885 by a foundation set up the widow of the founder of the Crüwell Tobacco Company. Bernhard Sehring was chosen as architect and construction was started in 1901 on the Niederwall. The Art Nouveau building was inaugurated with a performance of Carl Maria von Weber 's Der Freischütz on 3 April 1904. The financial crisis in the 1920s led to discussions about reducing

26-782: The Museum Island . In 1883, he received the Großer Akademischer Staatspreis. As a state scholarship holder in Rome (1883 and 1884), he took part in an international theatre building competition for the first time and opened the architectural firm Peters and Sehring with Ernst Peters in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1885. In 1889, he terminated this partnership and from 1890 was active as an independent, freelance artist and architect. Sehring became known for his designs, especially competition designs, theatre and other new buildings. At

39-770: The Theater des Westens in Berlin-Charlottenburg , he combined an elegant neo-baroque auditorium with a stage tower in the style of a medieval keep. Sehring later adopted a similar combination of disparate styles in the construction of the Stadttheater Halberstadt as well as the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhauses (both in 1905). At first, he even ran the Theater des Westens himself together with his partner Paul Blumenreich as Theater des Westens GmbH ; however,

52-589: The attempt was financially unsuccessful. From 1907 to 1921, he built his family's summer residence, the Roseburg castle  [ de ] in Ballenstedt ( Harz ). Edderitz Edderitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld , in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany . Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Südliches Anhalt . This Anhalt-Bitterfeld location article

65-517: The first time since being banned by the Nazis in the 1930s. Publishers and opera house staff recreated lost orchestral materials for productions of Bohuslav Martinů 's Julietta , Karol Rathaus ' Fremde Erde , and Ernst Toch 's Der Fächer . German romantic operas that had been lost since the 19th century were given new life, thus the rediscovery of Robert Schumann 's Genoveva , Louis Spohr 's Faust and Carl Maria von Weber's Die drei Pintos for

78-473: The following complete opera recordings: [REDACTED] Media related to Theater Bielefeld at Wikimedia Commons 52°01′15″N 8°32′06″E  /  52.02083°N 8.53500°E  / 52.02083; 8.53500 Bernhard Sehring Ernst Bernhard Sehring (1 June 1855 in Edderitz , Anhalt – 27 December 1941) was a German architect. Sehring came from a petty-bourgeois village background and

91-670: The national German and British press; critics from Gramophone , the Financial Times , and New York ( Opera News ) became regular visitors. In addition to operas like Lohengrin , Così fan tutte , Der Rosenkavalier and Aida , several dramaturgical leitmotifs were to be found in the programming of the Opernwunder years of the Bruns era. A number of operas from the Entartete Kunst ( degenerate art ) period were performed for

104-608: The number of employees or amalgamating with neighboring theaters in Münster and Osnabrück . When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Director Max Cahnbley was fired and replaced by Leon Geer. The building was rebuilt in 1937 but badly damaged during the bombing of Bielefeld on the night of 26 October 1944. It proved difficult to restart normal theater life immediately after the war as the British administration forbade drama performances. Nevertheless,

117-833: The opera ensemble continued to perform in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle. The opera house reopened on 19 September 2006, with a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro . Between 1975 and 1998, under Director Heiner Bruns and dramaturge Alexander Gruber, the Bielefeld Opera became internationally renowned as the Bielefelder Opernwunder ("Bielefeld Opera miracle"), producing a series of successful rediscoveries and premiere performances. The team, which included John Dew as stage director, Gottfried Pilz as stage designer; Rainer Koch, David de Villiers, and Geoffrey Moull as conductors, helped Bielefeld Opera attract attention of

130-478: The opera house reopened on 1 December 1945 with a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute . During the renovation of the building in 1960, it was decided not to renew the Art Nouveau façade; it was reconstructed for the 75th jubilee in 1979. The Theater Foundation Bielefeld was founded in 2001 with the purpose of renovating the building again at a cost of €23 million. It was closed in 2004 for two years, but

143-552: The operatic stage. Some operas from abroad received their European premieres in Bielefeld, such as John Adams ' Nixon in China and Shulamit Ran 's Der Dybbuk . The Bielefeld Opera also produced a number of world premieres, including Nikolai Karetnikov 's Till Eulenspiegel and Michael Hirsch's  [ de ] Das stille Zimmer . Nearly half of all new productions of the Bielefeld Opera between 1980 and 1998 were of innovative operas, including: The Bielefeld Opera has produced

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156-657: Was a trainee with the architect Karl Hoene in Halle (Saale) . Sehring completed his year of military service as a one-year volunteer in 1878/1879. He undertook a study trip to Italy in 1879/1880 to observe the theatre architecture and garden architecture there. Shortly after he was accepted into the Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin-Brandenburg  [ de ] , he received the Schinkel Prize  [ de ] , his first architectural award, in 1882 for his designs for

169-770: Was the son of a Dessau construction foreman. He was boarded by Professor Happach and attended the Gymnasium and the Kunstschule in Dessau. From 1873 until 1875, he studied at the Technische Universität Braunschweig , then architecture four semesters at the Berlin Bauakademie . During his studies he became a member of the Akademischer Verein Motiv Berlin  [ de ] . In 1877/1878, he

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