Heinz Fricke
Heinz Fricke (born February 11, 1927 in Halberstadt ; † December 7, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German conductor. From 1961 to 1992 he was general music director of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin .
Life
Fricke started as a tutor at the Halberstadt Theater in 1946 . From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Musikhochschule Weimar , among others with Hermann Abendroth and in Berlin with Erich Kleiber . From 1950 to 1960 he was first conductor at the Leipzig City Theaters. During this time he was already a frequent guest at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden in what was then the Admiralspalast . 1960 to 1961 he succeeded Kurt Masur as general music director at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . From 1961 to 1992 he was general music director at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
With stylistic diversity, he mastered a repertoire of around 180 works, including numerous world premieres of operas by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Wagner-Regeny, Cerha, Ernst Hermann Meyer , Alan Bush , Günter Kochan and Siegfried Matthus . Guest conductors have taken him to almost all of the major opera houses in Europe and overseas. From 1984 to 1990 Fricke was also music director of the Norske Opera Oslo and between 1992 and 2008 “Music Director” of the Washington National Opera , since 1996 with Placido Domingo as “Artist Director”.
Honors
- National Prize of the GDR
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1988)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (February 19, 1999)
literature
- Horst Seeger: Opera Lexicon. Henschelverlag Kunst u. Society, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-362-00014-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Fricke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Heinz Fricke , Der neue Merker, Vienna, 2/2002 (accessed on February 6, 2019)
- Fricke at the Kennedy Center
- Fricke in the person lexicon of the magazine Theater der Zeit
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany: conductor Heinz Fricke dies
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 30th / April 1st. May 1988, p. 5.
- ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fricke, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and general music director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 2015 |
| Place of death | Berlin |