Bavarian State Opera (Bayerische Staatsoper) - one of the leading opera houses of Germany. Founded in 1818. In 1963, opened after the restoration performance of "Frau ohne Schatten by R. Strauss. Among the major conductors: Bulow, Motley, Walter, Knappertsbush, Solti, Kempe, Zavallish, Schneider. Significant contribution to the theater director, introduced Ponnel. Bavarian State Opera is one of the most prestigious in Europe repertory theaters. Best performances continuously updated posters are included in the program's annual summer festival, which has long been a place of pilgrimage for lovers of opera and ballet. Like all normal theaters, there are performances of more and less successful, but each of them beats the living thought, and the characters of the opera any time and any identifiable genre of our contemporaries.

Since 1992, led by the famous theater theater Worker P. Jonas, former head of English National Opera. In summer the theater is a traditional festival (operas, ballets, concerts). At the theater have been world premieres of several operas of Wagner, Pfitzner, Korngolda, Henze and others.