Hans Gregor (14 April 1866, in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

– 13 August 1945, in

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) was a German actor and arts administrator. Gregor directed several German-language theaters, including in Barmen-Elberfeld from 1898 to 1905. In Berlin, he led the Komische Oper as its director from 1905 to 1911. Gregor was noted as initiating the trend in opera productions where the stage director began to assert greater influence compared to the previous dominance of opera singers. In addition, the company provided a more naturalistic style of opera productions. He presided over several notable productions, including 19 premieres. From 1910 to 1918, he led the

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. There, he presided over such productions as the first Vienna performances of ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...

''. Gregor wrote an autobiographical volume of recollections, ''Die Welt der Oper – Die Oper der Welt''.

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* German conductors (music) German male conductors (music) Opera managers German expatriates in Austria Actors from Dresden 1866 births 1945 deaths {{Opera-bio-stub