Knut Hendriksen (15 March 1944 – 10 March 2020) was a Norwegian opera director, who worked most of his career at the

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Career

Hendriksen was appointed at the

from 1969, and stayed there most of his career. His best known productions include '' The Barber of Seville'' (by

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, staged in 1998), and '' Tosca'' (by

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, staged in 2004). From 1980 to 1984 he was on leave from Stockholm, while he served as director and manager of the Norwegian National Opera.

Personal life and death

Hendriksen was born in Bergen in 1944, a son of

Arne Hendriksen Arne Olav Weiglin Hendriksen (1 January 1911 – 5 November 1996) was a Norwegian-Swedish ceramic artist and opera singer (tenor). Biography Hendriksen was born in Berlin, Germany. He was trained as a ceramic artist, but had a talent for singing ...

. He was a great-grandson of violinist and composer

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, about whom he wrote a biography in 2000. He died on 10 March 2020.

Selected works

* Biography.

References

1944 births 2020 deaths Theatre people from Bergen Norwegian opera directors Opera managers Norwegian biographers Norwegian expatriates in Sweden {{Norway-bio-stub