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Andreas K. W. Meyer
Andreas K. W. Meyer (2 June 1958 – 8 April 2023) was a German dramaturge, journalist, librettist and opera manager. He directed the Oper Bonn from the 2013–14 season. Meyer was focused on the revival of forgotten operas, especially from the early 20th century, such as '' Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna'' by Walter Braunfels. Life and career Meyer was born in Bielefeld on 2 June 1958. After his ''Abitur'' passed at the in his home town, and private composition studies with Rudolf Mors, he studied at the University of Münster from 1981, musicology with Klaus Hortschansky, among others, art history and German studies. Journalist In 1987, he began working as a freelance critic, among others for the ''Frankfurter Rundschau'' and various broadcasters including WDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk. He dealt in particular with the work of Carl Orff and Allan Pettersson. Dramaturge From 1993 to 2003, Meyer worked as music dramaturge at the Opernhaus Kiel, initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bielefeld
Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the 18th largest city in Germany. The historical centre of the city is situated north of the Teutoburg Forest line of hills, but modern Bielefeld also incorporates boroughs on the opposite side and on the hills. The city is situated on the ', a hiking trail which runs for 156 km along the length of the Teutoburg Forest. Bielefeld is home to a significant number of internationally operating companies, including Dr. Oetker, Gildemeister and Schüco. It has a university and several technical colleges ('' Fachhochschulen''). Bielefeld is also famous for the Bethel Institution, and for the Bielefeld conspiracy, which satirises conspiracy theories by claiming that Bielefeld does not exist. This concept has been used in the town's marketing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dannenberg
Peter Dannenberg (21 May 1930 – 9 March 2015) was a German musicologist, music writer and opera director. Life Danneneberg was born in Potsdam. After studying in Kiel and Freiburg in Br., Dannenberg was a feature editor in Kiel. From 1969 he then became editor-in-chief and music critic in charge of ''Die Welt''; from 1974 he held the same position at the ''Stuttgarter Zeitung''. He was a permanent contributor to most German radio stations, the magazine ''Opernwelt'' and other periodicals. From 1977 to 1986 he worked under the artistic direction of Christoph von Dohnányi as chief dramaturg of the Hamburg State Opera and at the same time director of the experimental stage of Opera Stabile with numerous world premieres in opera and concert, and also by Wolfgang Rihm, Heinz Holliger, Manfred Trojahn, Wilhelm Killmayer, Aribert Reimann, Günter Bialas, Isang Yun, Rolf Liebermann and Udo Zimmermann. From 1987 to 1990 he was deputy artistic director of the Oper Frankfurt, from 1990 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Schaaf
Johannes Schaaf (7 April 1933 – 1 November 2019) was a German film, theatre and opera director and actor. Several of his films have been internationally recognized. His focus shifted to opera in the 1980s and he worked with many of the leading international opera houses within Europe, and was invited to direct at several renowned opera houses in the United States and Asia. Biography He initially studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Berlin, but moved into theatre during the 1950s, during which he worked at the Staatstheater Stuttgart as actor and assistant stage director. 1958 he started directing himself at the Theater Ulm. During the 1960s, he became acclaimed through multiple movie and TV productions. His film '' Trotta'' was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. He was head of the jury at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. His movie ''Tattoo'' was one of the first films to address the generational tensions during the early y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Arturo Marelli
Marco Arturo Marelli (born 21 August 1949) is a Swiss set designer and stage director who has worked at European opera houses for opera and ballet. He designed sets for ballets by John Neumeier, and for premieres of the operas ''Thomas Chatterton'' by Matthias Pintscher at the Semperoper in Dresden (1998) and ''Medea'' by Aribert Reimann at the Vienna State Opera (2010). Career Born in Zurich on 21 August 1949, Marelli trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich to be a graphic designer. He assisted several set designers at the Wiener Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera, including Günther Schneider-Siemssen. August Everding engaged him in 1973 as an assistant of the Staatsoper Hamburg. Marelli created there sets for the ballet company of John Neumeier. From 1974, Marelli worked as a guest at the Theater Hagen, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, and at the Oper Frankfurt for stage directors Alfred Kirchner and Harry Kupfer. He also designed sets for the Komische Oper Berlin and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Czellnik
Katja Czellnik (born 6 August 1966) is a German music theatre director and lecturer at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Life Born in Hamburg, Czellnik studied musical theatre directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg under the conduct of Götz Friedrich from 1986 to 1990. She completed her studies with Wolfgang Rihm's '' Jakob Lenz'' at the Opera Stabile of the Hamburg State Opera. Parallel to her studies in directing, she also studied acting. In 1990, Czellnik became assistant director and evening director for musical theatre at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. So far, she has directed productions at the following theatres: Staatstheater Braunschweig, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Theater Bielefeld, Theater Dortmund, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Theater Basel, Vienna Volksoper, and Staatstheater Darmstadt. During the directorship of Kirsten Harms at the Kiel Opera, Czellnik was part of the regular cast of directors. With her six works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opernwelt
''Opernwelt'' (''Opera World'') is a monthly German magazine for opera, operetta and ballet. It includes news about current performances, portraits of composers and performers, articles about opera houses, performance spaces, and contemporary and historical subjects from the world of opera and classical music. It reviews recordings and books and publishes monthly schedules of German and international opera houses. The magazine's website offers full text search for past issues. A year book is published every October. Awards Each year since 1994, at the end of the season, the magazine sponsors a jury of 50 critics to select the best in several categories: * opera house of the year (') * staging of the year (') * stage director of the year (') * singer of the year (') * stage- and costume designer of the year (') * orchestra of the year (') * premiere of the year (') They are usually selected from German-speaking countries, Austria, Germany and German-speaking Switzerland. In 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Gnecchi
Vittorio Gnecchi (1876–1954) was an Italian composer. Life Gnecchi was the son of a wealthy industrialist. Thanks to his solid financial position, he was able to take private lessons, and had among his teachers Michele Saladino (who was also the teacher of Pietro Mascagni and Victor de Sabata), Tullio Serafin, Gaetano Coronaro and Carlo Gatti. As soon as he was nineteen years old, he achieved success with the pastoral action ''Virtù d'amore'', which allowed him to publish his work with the prestigious publisher Ricordi. The next work was the opera ''Cassandra'', whose libretto, taken from ''Oresteia'' by Aeschylus, was first set by Gnecchi himself, then entrusted to the librettist Luigi Illica. ''Cassandra'' was completed in 1903 and premiered on 5 December 1905 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the direction of Arturo Toscanini with Solomiya Krushelnytska and Giuseppe Borgatti. Shortly after the first performance of '' Elektra'' by Richard Strauss (25 January 1909), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Traumgörge
''Der Traumgörge'' (''Görge the Dreamer''), Opus number, Op. 11, is an opera in two acts and an epilogue by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky. The libretto was written by Leo Feld based on the fairy tale by Richard von Volkmann and the poem "Der arme Peter" by Heinrich Heine. Composition history Zemlinsky began composition of the (fairy-tale opera) in 1904 and completed it in 1906. Performance history ''Der Traumgörge'' was intended for performance at the Vienna State Opera (then known as the Vienna Court Opera), where Gustav Mahler, a mentor of Zemlinsky's, was musical director. Mahler had encouraged his younger colleague to compose the opera following the success of ''Es war einmal'' which Mahler had premiered in 1900. In 1907, the same year ''Der Traumgörge'' was scheduled for performance, Mahler hired Zemlinsky to be an assistant conductor. Shortly thereafter, however, Mahler abruptly resigned and his successor, Felix Weingartner, dropped ''Der Traumgörge'' from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germania (opera)
''Germania'' is an operatic ''dramma lirico'' consisting of a prologue, two acts, an intermezzo and an epilogue by Alberto Franchetti to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. The opera premiered on 11 March 1902 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Maehder, Jürgen: "''Germania''", '' Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Retrieved February 12, 2010), Illica, known for penning the librettos for some of Giacomo Puccini's best loved operas, originally gave the libretto for ''Tosca'' to Franchetti after the latter had obtained the rights to the Victorien Sardou play on which it was based. However, after Puccini expressed interest in it, Franchetti relinquished his rights,Budden, Julian: "''Tosca''", '' Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Retrieved February 12, 2010), and Illica gave the composer ''Germania'' instead. The composer and librettist, who were long-time close friends, had previously collaborated on the opera '' Cristoforo Colombo'' (1892). The plot of the libretto, which was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Liebe Der Danae
''Die Liebe der Danae'' (''The Love of Danae'') is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a February 1937 German libretto by Joseph Gregor, based on an outline written in 1920, "Danae, or The Marriage of Convenience", by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss worked on the score in 1937, 1938 and into 1939, although he was pre-occupied with completing ''Daphne'', developing ideas with Gregor and finally replacing him as librettist for '' Capriccio'', and then succumbed to illness, which caused postponement for several months into 1940. The opera was finally finished on 28 June 1940. However, for a variety of reasons including Strauss' perception that the failure of ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'', as he put it, was caused by having been "put on in German theatres too soon after the last war",Boyden, p. 339 the composer refused to allow Clemens Krauss, to whom he had guaranteed the right to conduct the first performances, to stage it until two years after the war. The opera is an ingenio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrano De Bergerac (Alfano)
''Cyrano de Bergerac'' is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 drama ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. History The opera received its first performance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 22 January 1936, conducted by Tullio Serafin, with Maria Caniglia and José Luccioni. The first performance in Paris was on 29 May 1936 at the Opéra-Comique. Although Alfano originally set the text in French, the premiere was sung in Italian, as were many early Italian productions. In recent years, most productions have returned to the original French text, which was used in the Paris premiere. Contemporary commentary on the opera by Guido M. Gatti criticised the composer as fearing "to seem too melodramatic", and the opera for being "overdecorated and labored" and containing "difficult and tortuous vocal writing". However, the same analysis also mentioned that "the opera has moments of definite effectiveness and exquisite poetry". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor. Life Early years Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner. His father separated from his mother in 1893 and took Gian Francesco to Trieste, Berlin and eventually to Vienna. The young Malipiero and his father broke up their relationship bitterly, and in 1899 Malipiero returned to his mother's home in Venice, where he entered the Venice ''Liceo Musicale'' (now the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia).John C.G. Watherhouse (1993). "Gian Francesco Malipiero (1883–1973)". In Symphonies nos.3 and 4 · Sinfonia del mare (pp. 3–5) D booklet Germany: Naxos. After stopping counterpoint lessons with the composer, organist and pedagogue Marco Enrico Bossi, Malipiero continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
