Konzerthaus Berlin
Neoclassical concert hall rebuilt from a wartime ruin behind Schinkel's original columned facade.
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This guide to the Konzerthaus Berlin begins in July 1817, when actors rehearsing a Schiller play on this spot found the theater burning around them. It follows the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who was handed the ruin with blunt orders, and the opera premiere that had the whole city whistling a few years later. Best heard in the square out front, where you can look up at the columns and the figures above them.
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