semper opera house (semperoper)

站在杉普歌剧院外看着它壮丽的外观 内心里想着如果可以在里面听场歌剧的话一定很赞吧!可惜当天没有表演 那至少也要买票参加导览阿!因为时间的关系只能混在德语团里.....服务人员还特地拿中文的简介给我看真的很nice...虽然它曾经过大火的摧残...但在建筑师 Semper 的指挥下又恢复了以往的面貌...它不像法国的音乐厅那么的金碧辉煌 可是多了一份朴实的美感!

One of the highlights of Dresden is going to a performance in this wonderful structure. Ornate, baroque, over the top - everything you want in your standard opera house. Its just as beautiful outside, if you pay attention as inside. There are tours, but you don't need them if you can just buy a ticket and see a show. If you are in the orchestra most people are pretty dressed up.... ok, lets face it - EVERYONE is pretty dressed up at this place in the evening. Dresden is quite old-fashioned. I sensed a great deal of disdain from all my co-opera attendees for our mega-tourist attire. But no matter, it was still a great experience to be in that wonderful space.

great experience in dresden. the opera building is beautiful and very artistic.we enjoyed a traditional german play and although there were no english subtitles we manage to feel and enjoy the play...

The rich decorated venue with four galleries and its horseshoe auditorium houses both the opera company as well as its ballet company.

My partner's mother gave us tickets to the Nutcracker at the Semper Opera House on 26 December 2014, and I was NOT disappointed in the opera house itself. Before you even enter the building, the outside architecture is beautiful and worth a visit, but upon entering the building, the detail in the décor was apparent. You instantly felt like upper class when walking through the hallways before entering the concert hall. That, however, just increased the amazement. The restoration that has gone on is phenominal. The clock, too, is a reason alone to visit the house.If at all possible, make sure to attend a show at the hall. It will be an experience that you never forget.

An absolutely gorgeous building!Such a shame I couldn't watch a concert there.The last minute tickets were just too pricey.Besides, we visited in the summer months, when the theatre takes a break, so not many shows were on.But, we did do an English speaking tour and I thoroughly recommend it.The stories of its creation and restoration are fraught with ironies and it seems to follow the adage that appearances are deceptive.What seems to be marble pillars aren't quite marble and so on. It's all very theatrical, cuing and exemplifying, Shakespeare's oft quoted line, "all the world's a stage."The Semperoper is home of the Dresden State Opera.It was designed by a father son duo, after whom it is named and has endured a somewhat fractious fate over the years, having been destroyed several times and rebuilt again and again.The building, as it stands now, was finished by the East German government as a propaganda tool.It is a grand old Baroque building, with beautiful frescoes and a heavy, ornate chandelier, which has several safety mechanisms to ensure that it doesn't fall down!It has a huge cavern of a stage and the famous Semperoper clock.If you like history/art and architecture and want to take pictures, do the tour.You can book it online.But far better, would be catching a show at the Semperoper if you are in town.The tickets are available online but do keep in mind that the theatre closes for two months in summer.The brilliant acoustics of the building can best be appreciated in a show.They do a tour for the kids as well, but I think that is available only in German.My daughter was the only child in the group and while she was quite patient, I dare say, she would have enjoyed a kids tour more.

This is a beautiful opera house, and while the tour is informative all of the info you get told can be researched online. I would recommend going to an opera and really experiencing the Sempreropera in action. If you have a student card (from any university in the world you can get some of the best seats in the house for 10euro, the opera house does this to try and encourage younger generations to get into opera). If your not a student you can purchase tickets in advance, the cheapest is normally 22euro, you will need to do this a couple of weeks in advance to get that price. Alternatively 50 tickets for 11euros are released on the day and can be brought between 10am and 2pm on the day of the opera. These are for standing only, HOWEVER if the opera is not sold out you can sit in whatever seat you can find on the level you are in. We knew the opera had plenty of seats so did this, you just have to wait until the opera starts and then you can sit down. Another alternative is to go an hour before the opera starts, any remaining seats will be half price. Subtitles in German are shown however you don't need to speak Italian or German to be able to enjoy an opera or more importantly the opera house. Its a great experience and its one of the best known opera houses in Germany.

We joined the 45 minutes-tour. It was very informative, especially on the materials used to build the opera house inside and out. We were lucky to see them testing the set and lights for the Nutcracker performance that night - and while we missed a performance, being inside the opera house and knowing a bit of its history were well worth it.If I will be so blessed to be back in Dresden again, I will ensure that I get to see an actual performance!

My cousin came across seats for us to go here and they were so reasonable. I would never have thought to go to a place like this because I thought it would be so expensive. We didn't know what we were going to see until we got there. It was an orchestra playing classical music mostly by Haydn. Atmosphere was fantastic. We were in the 3rd tier just below the gods, was perfectly fine. There are only 2 rows of seats here and we were in the 2nd row so could stand up and look if we wanted to. The evening was fabulous and we spent about half an hour after the performance outside enjoying the wonderful lit up buildings.

by chance I was lucky to catch tickets for "The knight of the rose" (Rosenkavalier) performance before Christmas, conducted from Christian Tielemann, which was a true gift, if you like Opera you should visit the Semperoper, this is a historic place, beautiful renovated, an icon of Dresden, the people are working here with passion

There are paid tours of this fantastic building. A bomb went through the center of the building when the British bombed Dresden during the war. The building was rebuilt and the interior is fantastic. You have to pay extra to take photos and videos when you take the tour. The place is beautiful and you shouldn't miss it.

Located just outside Zwinger, the Semperoper is not that difficult to find. From outside, the architecture looks beautiful. Unfortunately, I didn't visit the inside parts of the Semperoper.

the Semper Opera House has a unique style. Is a monument difficult to forget. I visited for a second time in November 2014, and I'm sure to return. Benn renovated after WW2 and a fantastic work been doone.

Since the operas presented here have only German subtitles, we opted for the Nutcracker ballet instead. Tickets were readily obtained online and printed at home with no problems. As usual in wintertime Germany, coat check is at no charge. The seats were comfortable with good sight-lines and excellent acoustics. The performance was a traditional staging, well-executed and very enjoyable. HIghly recommended.

this opera was renovated after world war , a nice opera with lot of history , but there is no much use of guided tour , you can take a round by yourself buying a ticket or taking audio guide.