Calixto Bieito
Calixto Bieito (born November 2, 1963 in Miranda de Ebro , Spain ) is a Spanish opera and drama director .
He has built a reputation for himself as a “scandal director” with modern, expressively violent, or deliberately sexualized opera productions. Between 1999 and 2011 he was director of the Teatre Romea in Barcelona .
Bieito has Galician roots on his father's side and southern Spanish roots on his mother's side.
Productions (excerpt)
- 2001, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Un ballo in maschera
- 2001, Welsh National Opera Cardiff, The Bat
- July 2001, Salzburg Festival , Macbeth ( Shakespeare )
- January 2002, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona and Hanover State Opera , Don Giovanni
- 2002, Festival Grec Barcelona, Threepenny Opera (awarded the Premio Ercilio della Mejor Creación )
- 2002, Edinburgh Festival , Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
- February 2003, State Opera Hanover , Il trovatore
- September 2003, State Opera Hanover , La traviata
- 2004, Komische Oper Berlin , The Abduction from the Seraglio
- 2006, Theater Basel , Don Carlos
- June 2006, State Opera Hanover , Wozzeck ( Alban Berg )
- January 2007, Theater Freiburg , Elektra ( Richard Strauss )
- February 2007, State Opera Stuttgart , Jenufa
- June 2007, State Opera Stuttgart , La fanciulla del West
- September 2007, Hebbel-Theater (Hebbel am Ufer - Hau Eins), Berlin, Tirant lo Blanc ( Joanot Martorell & Martí Joan de Galba )
- October 2007, Schauspiel Frankfurt , Tirant lo Blanc (Joanot Martorell & Martí Joan de Galba)
- January 2008, State Opera Stuttgart , The Flying Dutchman ( Richard Wagner )
- 2008, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Don Giovanni
- February 2009, Theater Basel , Lulu ( Alban Berg )
- April 2009, Komische Oper Berlin , Armida - German version of Armide ( Christoph Willibald Gluck )
- May 2009, Theater Freiburg , La vida breve ( Manuel de Falla )
- October 2009, Nationaltheater Mannheim , Lulu (spoken theater piece based on Frank Wedekind's dramas Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora )
- January 2010, Theater Freiburg , Le Grand Macabre ( György Ligeti )
- March 2010, State Opera Stuttgart , Parsifal ( Richard Wagner )
- December 2010, National Theater Munich , Fidelio ( Beethoven )
- January 2011, Theater Freiburg , From Germany ( Mauricio Kagel )
- April 2011, Nationaltheater Mannheim , Bernarda Albas Haus ( Federico García Lorca )
- May 2011, State Opera Stuttgart , Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno ( Handel )
- June 2011, Komische Oper Berlin , Conversations of the Carmelites ( Francis Poulenc )
- September 2011, Ruhrtriennale , Hanjo ( Toshio Hosokawa )
- November 2011, Theater Freiburg , The Great World Theater ( Pedro Calderón de la Barca )
- January 2012, Komische Oper Berlin , Der Freischütz ( Carl Maria von Weber )
- May 2012, Residenztheater Munich , Der Kirschgarten ( Anton Chekhov )
- June 2013, Residenztheater Munich , Leonce and Lena - Dark Night of the Soul (based on texts and motifs by Georg Büchner )
- December 2013, Norwegian Opera & Ballet in the Oslo Opera House , Hoffmann's Tales ( Jacques Offenbach )
- October 2014, Staatstheater Nürnberg , Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini )
- January 2017, Hamburg State Opera , Otello ( Giuseppe Verdi )
- March 2018, Hamburg State Opera , Messa da Requiem ( Giuseppe Verdi )
- March 2018, Leipzig Opera , Tannhäuser ( Richard Wagner )
- June 2018, Zurich Opera House , L'incoronazione di Poppea ( Claudio Monteverdi )
- December 2018, Nationaltheater Mannheim , Marienvesper ( Claudio Monteverdi )
Web links
- Calixto Bieito in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Calixto Bieito in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dorle Knapp-Klatsch: "Parsifal" - the opera with the expansion joints. Culture magazine 8tung.info, March 30, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Profile Teatro Romea
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bieito, Calixto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2nd, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miranda de Ebro |