Barbara Beyer

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Barbara Beyer (born October 10, 1956 in Königstein im Taunus ) is a German opera director and university lecturer.

Life

Beyer studied musicology, psychology and German in Frankfurt and Berlin. It was in 1986 at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on Verdi's Don Carlos in a research project at Carl Dahlhaus Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1991 to 1996 she was dramaturge at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and guest dramaturge at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Freie Volksbühne Berlin. From the beginning of the 1990s she emerged as a freelance director with productions at the Stralsund Theater and in Bielefeld. Since 1996 she has shown her provocative directing at German-speaking opera houses such as Nuremberg, Bonn, Braunschweig, Aachen, Hanover, as well as Basel and Innsbruck.

Her works include Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in Basel , Bernd Alois Zimmermann's The Soldiers , in Nuremberg John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Seraglio , Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio , Luigi Dallapiccola's The Prisoner , and in Hanover Alban Bergs Lulu , Leoš Janáčeks Jenůfa , Othmar Schoecks Penthesilea and in Bonn Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride , Steffen Schleiermacher's cocaine and Henri Pousseur's Votre Faust . Most recently she did the Wozzeck in Aachen in 2004 .

From 2004 to 2008 Barbara Beyer worked in Berlin as a lecturer at the University of the Arts in the field of stage design and at the "Hanns Eisler" music academy in the field of musical theater directing. In 2009 she received the professorship for "Musical and Dramatic Representation (Scenic Interpretation)" at the Graz University of Art . In 2015 she was appointed head of the opera class at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “ When lightning strikes at Beyer ” from Die Welt April 22, 2001
  2. ^ " Music Concerts - Opera - Dance " from the preview of the premieres Der Spiegel from March 26, 2001
  3. ^ " The opera trembles " from Der Tagesspiegel December 2, 2006
  4. ↑ Much praise for the theater: “There is no more air” from the Aachner Nachrichten of March 26, 2004
  5. ↑ Opera director Barbara Beyer receives professorship for music-dramatic representation (scenic) at the KUG , press release of July 21, 2009 on the website of the University of Art Graz , accessed on February 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ Barbara Beyer new head of the opera class at the Dresden University of Music , press release ( memento of the original from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden , accessed on February 19, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmdd.de
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Königstein im Taunus