Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
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What's on
Servicemenü
Exhibition - Picture Gallery
Hauptbereich
Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Fri 27 January - Sun 24 June 2012
Frederick's 'Montezuma'.
Power and Meaning in the Prussian Court Opera
| The Aztec emperor Moctezuma II (or Montezuma), from: Andre Thevet, Les Vrais Povrtraits Et Vies Des Hommes, Paris 1584 © Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin |
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| Flute with matching case, belonging to the composer Johann Joachim Quantz, from the personal estate of Frederick the Great © Musikinstrumenten-Museum, photo: Jürgen Liepe |
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| J. Böhmer: interior of the Royal Opera House in Berlin, around 1850 © bpk |
