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Before narrating the events connected with Mademoiselle Lind's first appearance at the Court Theatre at Berlin, it is desirable that we should say a few words in explanation of the more than ordinary interest attached to the re-opening of that splendid Opera-House, so famous in the history of Art and so closely interwoven with that of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
One of the first acts of King Frederick the Great, after his accession to the throne of Prussia, on the 30th of May, 1740, was the foundation of an Opera-House, designed on a scale sufficiently splendid to eclipse the glories of every other theatre in Europe.