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The Semperoper is one of the world's most prestigious opera houses, home to the Sächsische Staatsoper (Saxon State Opera) and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, an orchestra founded in 1548. The current building is actually the third iteration, rebuilt in 1985 after wartime destruction.
Architect Gottfried Semper designed the original opera house in 1841 (destroyed by fire in 1869) and a second version completed in 1878. Allied bombing obliterated it in 1945; reconstruction took 40 years. The reopened house premiered on 13 February 1985 with Der Freischütz.