Dear Friends,
Dear American Friend of the Berlin Staatsoper,
The Linden Opera House is open for daily performances and the Staatskapelle-Berlin recently returned home from an acclaimed European Tour with resounding applause.
After two years of combating COVID in its various permutations, your world of culture is reopening with traditional and contemporary musical performances. Two major events on the 2022 horizon are the April Berlin Festival Days and the Wagner Ring Cycle in October.
I am writing to ask for your help in sustaining this unique over 400-year-old community with a tax-deductible donation to our annual fundraising program. Your gift will ensure young singers and musicians are professionally trained to carry forward the traditions that have for decades enriched your life. In addition, the American Friends have supported simultaneous translations of opera performances. In New York City, artists such as René Pape, Michael Volle, and Marianne Crebassa have donated their time to entertain you at our soirées.
Thank you for making this possible, and for enabling us to carry on the centuries’ old traditions with an international, youthful, and energic ensemble under the baton of Maestro Daniel Barenboim. I look forward to hearing from you and wish you a joyous Holiday Season.
Sincerely,
Harvey Stuart Traison
President
Thank you for supporting the Staatsoper Unter den Linden!
American Friends of the Berlin Staatsoper, Inc. is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law. AFBS’s federal ID number is: 13-3785118. Payment by checks may be sent to and tax receipts are available from:
American Friends of the Berlin Staatsoper, Inc.
c/o Harvey S. Traison, President
1010 Brickell Avenue,Suite 4506
Miami, FL 33131-3793