Carl Riha
Carl Riha (born January 25, 1923 in Vienna ; † December 15, 2012 in Chemnitz ) was an Austrian opera director who worked mainly in the GDR .
Live and act
Riha studied at the Vienna Conservatory and from 1952 as assistant to Walter Felsenstein musical theater directing.
Riha first came to the stages in St. Pölten in 1945 and then to Bregenz in 1947 ; then he went to Germany: in 1948 first to Flensburg , then to Magdeburg .
During his time as assistant at the Komische Oper Berlin , he already directed Albert Lortzing's Der Wildschütz .
He then went to Karl-Marx-Stadt as opera director , where Harry Kupfer also worked as senior director . Riha stayed in Chemnitz until he retired.
Riha staged both the classical and the contemporary repertoire and was particularly committed to new works that he developed in Brno , Dresden , Leipzig , Graz and at the Unter den Linden State Opera . He has also appeared as a translator and arranger of a number of operas, including works by Auber , Cimarosa , Donizetti , Millöcker , Petrow , Prokofieff , Puccini , Smetana and Johann Strauss . Some of his productions were recorded by GDR television , including Rihas Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi . In 1952 Riha wrote the libretto Das Fräulein from Potsdam for the composer Otto Mahrenburg .
In 1953 Riha founded the opera studio (and the directing class) at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Riha's students also include Christine Mielitz and the directors Ehrhard Warneke ( Weimar ), Andreas Baumann ( Dresden ) and Klaus Harnisch (Berlin).
Riha's production of Puccini's Tosca was on the program from 1976 to 2014 in the State Opera in the Schillertheater Berlin . Riha was married to the soprano Ursula Handrick .
Awards
- National Prize of the GDR III. Art and Literature Class (1963)
- Order of the Star of Friendship of Nations in Gold (1983)
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
Fonts
- Carl Riha: On the interpretation of the "Bartered Bride". In: Yearbook of the Komische Oper. Vol. 7, pp. 207-215.
- Carl Riha: Workshop days of the music theater The desire for responsibility. Thoughts on the ensemble in music theater. In: Theater of Time. Volume 2, 1982, pp. 20-23.
- Carl Riha: Thoughts on the music theater workshop '89 by Siegfried Matthus , Gerhard Müller, Kurt Dietmar Richter, Siegfried Böttger, Günter Rimkus, Carl Riha, Heinrich Wieberneit. In: Theater of Time. Issue 5, 1989, p. 9ff.
- Carl Riha: In dialogue with the audience Conversation with Gerhard Meyer, Hartwig Albiro, Carl Riha and Dieter Görne (Karl-Marx-Stadt). Recorded by Ingeborg Pietzsch from Dieter Görne, Hartwig Albiro, Ingeborg Pietzsch, Carl Riha, Gerhard Meyer. In: Theater of Time. No. 4, 1980.
literature
- Horst Seeger: Opera Lexicon. Henschel-Verlag Berlin 1989, p. 551.
- Ilse Kobàn (eds.), Joachim Herz (foreword): Routine destroys the play or Die Sau has no theater blood: From letters and introductory reports on Felsenstein's work. For the 50th anniversary of the Komische Oper Berlin . Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 1997, ISBN 3-931329-13-5 . (Participants: Walter Felsenstein, Ellen von Frankenberg, Augustus Gross, Kurt Horres , Wolfgang Kersten, Edith Maerker, Reinhard Mieke, Harald Engelmann, Ernst Rehm, Carl Riha, Siegfried Tittert, Heinz Wächter)
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Riha in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Riha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Professor Carl Riha 80 years in Chemnitzgeschichte.de (accessed on May 1, 2017).
- 30 years of Rihas Tosca in the repertoire of the Berlin State Opera
- Rihalistic musical theater
- Carl Riha at Operabase (productions)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Free Press , local edition Chemnitz from December 19, 2012, p. 14.
- ↑ Ciao, Tosca! State Opera Berlin blog from May 29, 2014. Accessed August 15, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riha, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 2012 |
| Place of death | Karl Marx City |