Alexander von Pfeil

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Alexander Christian Ernst Walter Friedrich Carl Graf von Pfeil and small-Ellguth (* 8. September 1970 in Bremerhaven ) is a German musical theater - director .

biography

Alexander Graf von Pfeil and Klein-Ellguth is the son of the soprano Astrid Schirmer and the conductor Carl von Pfeil . He studied musical theater directing with Götz Friedrich at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . In 1997 he received a sponsorship award at the 1st International Director's Competition in Graz (“Wagner Forum”).

At Oper Kiel , where he was senior director from 2000 to 2003 , he staged Carmen ( Georges Bizet ), Les contes d'Hoffmann ( Jacques Offenbach ), Rigoletto ( Giuseppe Verdi ), The Rape of Lucretia ( Benjamin Britten ), Cyrano de Bergerac ( Franco Alfano ) and Donna Diana ( Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek ). Further directorial work took him to Düsseldorf ( Pierrot Lunaire ), to the Theaterhaus Jena ( Schiller's Die Räuber ), to Meiningen ( Tristan and Isolde ), Bielefeld ( Gounod's Faust ) and Freiburg ( Rusalka ).

From 2005 to 2007 he was chief director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (director: Kirsten Harms ), where he directed Arabella and Der Freischütz . In June 2006 he realized La fille du régiment at the Hamburg State Opera , in February 2008 Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner at the Oldenburg State Theater , Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi , Madama Butterfly and La voix humaine ( Poulenc ) / Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ( Monteverdi ) on Theater Aachen . In January 2011 he staged La forza del destino at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg .

At the Biel Solothurn Theater he staged Rossini's seldom played Tancredi , which from there made guest appearances throughout Switzerland. Here he was invited again for the 2012/13 season with Niccolò Piccinnis La Cecchina for the staging of a rarity.

At the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, where he realized The Seven Deadly Sins in 2011 , his production of the world premiere of Sidney Corbett's Ubu with Michael Dahmen in the title role came out in April 2012 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The bad boy
  2. ^ Thomas Molke: Gelsenkirchen: Ubu. Review in Online Musik Magazin , accessed June 1, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Arrow, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeil and Klein-Ellguth, Alexander Christian Ernst Walter Friedrich Carl Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven