Members of Frankfurt Opera were sent to Auschwitz and other camps where they perished. Schramm survived, living to testify against the Frankfurt Gestapo officer Heinrich Baab in 1951. The opera house was damaged in an air raid in January 1944, and then almost completely destroyed in March. After the war money was tight. A new house for opera and play was built, completed in 1963 at the Theaterplatz (now Willy-Brandt-Platz). From 1977 to 1987 Frankfurt Opera was led by Michael Gielen. This decade became known as the "Gielen Era", notable for the music of a conductor who was also a composer, and directors including Ruth Berghaus and Hans Neuenfels, whose productions of standard works such as Verdi's "Aida" and Wagner's "Ring Cycle" were thought-provoking. Operas which received their world premieres at the house were also performed again, including Franz Schreker's "Die Gezeichneten". The stage of the opera house was destroyed by a fire in November 1987. The opera house was rebuilt and opened in April 1991. Many famous singers started their career with the company, including Franz Völker, Edda Moser, Cheryl Studer and Diana Damrau, and many established artists have been engaged there in recent seasons including Christian Gerhaher, whose roles here have included Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" and his first Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Piotr Beczała in Massenet's "Werther" and Jan-Hendrik Rootering in Wagner's "Parsifal". Music Director, since 2008, is Sebastian Weigle, General Manager, since 2002, Bernd Loebe. Weigle's new productions there have included Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten", "Daphne" and "Arabella", Korngold's "Die tote Stadt", Reimann's "Lear" and Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauß. He has also conducted performances of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", Beethoven's "Fidelio", Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" and "Parsifal" for the company. He performed the four parts of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen", staged by Vera Nemirova, finishing with Götterdämmerung in 2012.