Peter Beat Wyrsch

Peter Beat Wyrsch (born April 13, 1946 in Stans ) is a Swiss theater director and artistic director.

After studying musicology in Basel and Erlangen , he worked as an assistant at the Theater Basel and at the Salzburg Easter Festival under Herbert von Karajan .

He was co-founder of the Nuremberg Pocket Opera Company and its director from 1974 to 2007. With this ensemble guest performances have taken him to Edinburgh , London , Milan , Florence , Mexico and New York City . After an engagement as senior director at the Ulm Theater , he switched to the opera management of the Munster Municipal Theaters in the 1996/1997 season , where he attracted international attention in particular with his productions of Richard Wagner's works . As a guest he has staged on various stages in Europe and overseas. He is considered an expert in contemporary music theater.

From 2007 to 2013 he was artistic director and opera director of the Biel Solothurn theater . In 2018 he was acting opera director at the Heidelberg Theater and Orchestra . Also in 2018 collaboration on the documentary "After the Storm - 1968 and the New Dawn in Central Switzerland" (film by Beat Bieri and Jörg Huwyler).

Awards

• 2006 City of Nuremberg Prize

Important productions

• 1999–2001: The Ring of the Nibelung (Richard Wagner)
• 2004: Lohengrin (Richard Wagner)
• 2006: Tannhäuser ( Richard Wagner )
• 2007: I due Foscari (Giuseppe Verdi)
• 2009: Amadis ( Jean-Baptiste Lully )
• 2009: Magic Flute ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
• 2011: Italiana in Algeri ( Gioacchino Rossini )
• 2012: Tsar and Zimmermann ( Albert Lortzing )
• 2013: Rigoletto ( Giuseppe Verdi )
• 2013: Heile Welt ( Urs Peter Schneider ) - world premiere
• 2014: Heile Welt (Urs Peter Schneider) - guest performances in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen

literature

• Kathrina Erizar: Peter Beat Wyrsch . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 2126 f.
• Brigitt Flüeler: The volcanic eruption of the cellar culture in Stans. The Vienna Festival in the Chäslager from 12. – 20. April 1969. In: "Winds of Change?" : 1968 and Central Switzerland. (= The History Friend. Volume 172). 2019, ISBN 978-3-85761-329-6 , pp. 44-62.
• Peter Beat Wyrsch in conversation with Uwe Schweikert in: Musik und Szene Münster 1992–2004. Agenda Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89688-223-6 , p. 79 f.
• Klaus Hortschansky, Berthold Warnecke (ed.): The Ring of the Nibelung in Münster - The cycle from 1999 to 2001. Agenda Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89688-103-5 .
• Stephan Bundi: Posters for the Theater Biel Solothurn 2007–2013. Theater Biel Solothurn, Biel 2013, ISBN 978-3-907638-22-4 .