Where was the world premiere of Richard Wagner's first opera and the birthplace of Georg Philipp Telemann?

Magdeburg is the capital of the former East German state Saxony-Anhalt, on the Elbe River which flows generally northwest to Hamburg into the North Sea. The city was founded in 805 AD by Charlemagne as 'Magadoburg', probably from Old High German 'magado' (big, mighty) and 'burga' (fortress). The uploaded photo depicts the Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice.

"Das Liebesverbot" (Ban on Love) was the first opera by the then-23-year-old Richard Wagner (1813-1883) to have its first performance, in Magdeburg (1836). However, Wagner's actual maiden opera, "Die Feen" (Fairies, 1833), was unproduced in his lifetime.

The composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) may be the most notable native son of Magdeburg, four years senior to both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Fredrick Handel and friends of both. Bach and Handel can often justifiably be dubbed the 'dynamic duo' of 'late' Baroque composers and like Telemann were natives of the future-and-former East Germany, Bach in Eisenach (Thuringia) and Handel in Halle, the largest city of the state Saxony-Anhalt though Magdeburg is the capital.

Roughly half lost, much of Telemann's credited work (among over 3,000, especially for chorus; solo voice(s); or both) have had modern day premieres only in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In 1987, the city of Magdeburg initiated the annual Telemann Award for the musician or scholar who does the most to enhance the reputation of its distinguished native son.