Berthold Warnecke (born 15 February 1971) is a German

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

and Opera director in

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg ...

Career

Born in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...

, Warnecke studied musicology, Germanistic and

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...

and the Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale in Cremona. He received his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

in 1999. Already in 1998 he was engaged as personal advisor to the General Music Director Will Humburg and as Music Dramaturge at the Theater Münster and the Münster Symphony Orchestra (until 2007). From 2005 to 2007 he was a lecturer at the Musicology Seminar of the WWU-Münster. Since 2013 he has held a teaching position at the Communication Science Seminar of the

University of Erfurt The University of Erfurt (german: Universität Erfurt) is a public university located in Erfurt, the capital city of the German state of Thuringia. It was founded in 1379, and closed in 1816. It was re-established in 1994, three years after Germ ...

, where he has been a music dramaturgist in the ensemble of the

Theater Erfurt The Theater Erfurt is a German municipal theatre located in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. The main stage is in a building in the Brühlervorstadt, completed in 2003. The theatre offers musical theatre and concerts, played by the Philharmonisc ...

since 2007. Warnecke worked with the stage directors Marc Adam, Matthew Ferraro, Lorenzo Fioroni, Rosamund Gilmore, Jean-Louis Grinda,

Michael Hampe Michael Hampe (3 June 1935 – 18 November 2022) was a German theatre and opera director, general manager (''Intendant'') and actor. He developed from acting and directing plays at German and Swiss theatres including the Bern Theatre, to focus o ...

, ,

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, Stephen Lawless, , and Pamela Recinella,

Werner Schneyder Werner Schneyder (25 January 1937 – 2 March 2019) was an Austrian kabarett performer, journalist, writer, actor, stage director, television presenter and sports reporter. He performed political kabarett with Dieter Hildebrandt from 1974 to 19 ...

Katharina Thalbach Katharina Thalbach (; actually ''Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach''; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film ''The T ...

and

Katharina Wagner Katharina Wagner (born 21 May 1978 in Bayreuth) is a German opera stage director and is the director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and Gudrun Wagner (née Armann), great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and gre ...

. Since the 2016/2017 season, Warnecke has been working as

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at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.Interview with Berthold Warnecke
in the ' (8 March 2019)

References

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