Aniara Amos

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Aniara Amos (* 1974 in Rancagua , Chile ) is a Chilean-German theater director , opera director and choreographer .

Life

Aniara Amos was trained as a dancer in Heidelberg and at the Staatliche Balletthochschule Mannheim, afterwards she studied musicology and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, stage design at the UdK Berlin with Achim Freyer and opera direction at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin . She took master classes with Peter Konwitschny and Achim Freyer. Assistant director (opera and drama 1994–2002) took her to the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the Opéra National du Rhin (Strasbourg), the Opéra La Monnaie (Brussels), the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Lisbon), the Berliner Ensemble , the Volksbühne Ost (Berlin), the Schwetzingen Festival , the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as the Opéra de Montpellier and the Graz Opera .

Amos is a founding member of the Freyer Ensemble (1995), of which she was director from 2000 to 2004. She was involved in the following productions in the areas of direction, stage and costume design and as an actress: "Komödia", "Orchesterstück", "Distanzen", "In hora mortis", "Liebe von Kopf bis Konfus", "Rolling / Kids" and “Freyer and Toscanini rehearse Traviata”. Since 2001 she has been working as a freelance director and set designer in the field of music theater.

Aniara Amos lives in Berlin.

Aniara Amos began her theater career as a child at the Heidelberg Theater. Her talent for acting and dance, which she recognized early on, was promoted under the direction of Peter Stolzenberg. As a teenager she trained in what was then Johann Kresnik's company. After her training as a dancer, she met the director and set designer Achim Freyer, who would shape her further career. Encouraged by Gerd Rienäcker, who attested Amos “an extraordinary talent for the stage” during her studies, Aniara Amos expanded her range of knowledge and, in addition to her main studies in philosophy and musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, studied as a visiting student at the HdK stage design with Achim Freyer and was invited by the Hanns-Eisler University of Music to take an extraordinary degree in opera directing. As the only one in the history of the opera directing course, she was allowed to skip the actual course in order to start the postgraduate course straight away. In addition to her lessons with the singing great Jutta Vulpius, she got her first offers as a dancer at the age of 19, which would soon take her all over Europe. Her work showed her interest in a physically formal theatrical language that involved elements from dance as well as experimental movement patterns that she developed together with the singers.

Freischütz, 2006

In 2006 she worked with composers such as Salvatore Sciarrino and the conductor Thomas Hengelbrock. In addition to its outstanding success at the Salzburg Festival, Il Re Pastore was also acclaimed on several stages in Germany.

“My first encounter with theater was my game as a child of building rooms and furniture out of old shoeboxes, fabric scraps and empty boxes, in which I put my characters and let them act. This game kept me busy for several hours, much to the delight of the adults. I immersed myself deeply in this world that I created. Even today, remembering it gives me a feeling of bliss and deep peace. The childlike certainty that things could be influenced, improved, and changed in this world fascinated me again and again. If a story went the wrong way, I could correct it. So I replayed scenes over and over again until I liked them, until they remained exciting and unpredictable in the smallest detail. Long before my imagination could be influenced by the adult world, I unconsciously recognized the potential of my own creativity. Today, many years later, I am building rooms for a large audience, I tell stories for many. And every time I come on stage for the final applause, I feel only one wish: to have given you this childlike feeling of bliss that theater can give us. "

- Aniara Amos

Dance engagements

Aniara Amos received engagements as a dancer between 1996 and 2002 a. a. at the Los Angeles Opera , the Salzburg Festival , the Schwetzinger Festival , the Gessnerallee Zurich, the Kunsthalle Bonn , St. Pölten and the Basel Opera.

Own work

Her own theatrical works include:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Freyer Ensemble, Berlin - “Freyer and Toscanini rehearse Traviata” ( memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on figurentheaterfestival.de , accessed on December 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Theater workshops ( memento of November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, accessed on December 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ DIE SPANISCHE STUNDE / DIE KLUGE ( Memento from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Wolksoper Vienna, accessed on December 5, 2014.
  5. ^ Aniara Amos at Theater Dortmund ( Memento from April 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ The Magic Flute . Production details on the website of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2014.
  7. ^ A Midsummer Night's Dream on the website of the Theater Magdeburg, accessed on December 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ Yes and No , review in the Frankfurter Rundschau on May 4, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2014.
  9. ↑ MOZART'S DON GIOVANNI in Copenhagen , review on operamylove.wordpress.com , accessed on December 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Amos, Aniara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean-German theater director, opera director and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Rancagua , Chile