Christa Leiffheidt

Christa Leiffheidt (* in Wiesbaden ) is a German director and dramaturge .

Life

Christa Leiffheidt studied music, German, theater and musicology in Mainz and Mannheim, received ballet and singing training at the same time and took acting lessons in Stanislavski and Strasberg . After two state exams, she completed the diploma course in music theater directing in Hamburg and was assistant to Hans Neuenfels , Ruth Berghaus , Herbert Wernicke , Götz Friedrich and Renate Ackermann, among others .

She worked at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , the Hamburg State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin . In addition, she was in various festive engagements at the Institut für Musiktheater in Karlsruhe, the Städtebundtheater Hof and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern as well as a lecturer at the Opera School of the University of the Arts Bremen and the Stage & Musical School in Frankfurt am Main.

She headed the Wiesbaden Opera School for two years. In April 2000 she founded the Junge Oper Rhein-Main together with students and graduates from this opera school , which in the same month presented itself to the public with its first musical theater production.

From 2003 she worked as a director, dramaturge and librettist at the opera festival in Chiemgau, Gut Immling. Since 2006 she has been giving scenic lessons in the studio vocale and center voice in Saarbrücken and other cities.

She is also active in the field of cultural management.

In summer 2010, together with committed citizens of Sonnenberg, she initiated the revival of the Wiesbaden Castle Festival, which had already taken place at Sonnenberg Castle in 1903, 1953/54 and 1956/57. At this newly founded Castle Festival in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, she staged the comedy The Servant of Two Lords by Carlo Goldoni in 2014 .

A little later a group of interested cultural workers joined together in the non-profit association "Wiesbadener Burgfestspiele eV".

On July 26th, 2015, she performed as a reciter of poems and prose texts in a concert with Dorothee Mields , Hille Perl and Lee Santana . It took place in the historical Kursaal of Bad Lauchstädt and was redesigned on November 15, 2016 in Wiesbaden.

Productions (selection)

• La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina ( Francesca Caccini )
• Armida ( Joseph Haydn )
• World premiere of the opera Herzstück ( Bernfried EG Pröve ) based on the play Gundling's Life Friedrich von Prussia Lessing's Sleep Dream Scream ( Heiner Müller )
• Il Tutore ( Johann Adolph Hasse ) for the Johann Adolph Hasse Conference at the Michaelstein Monastery Foundation (Blankenburg, Saxony-Anhalt)
• The cousin from Dingsda ( Eduard Künneke )
• The magic flute in the big top
• The Marriage of Figaro ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
• Master Class - Maria Callas ( Terrence McNally )
• The servant of two masters (Goldoni)

On February 1, 2008, her staging of the operetta Die Schöne Galathée by Franz von Suppè premiered at the Paris Court Theater in Wiesbaden.

At the beginning of September 2008, following an invitation to Skala Eressos on Lesvos, she staged the Sapphic Odes by Sir Granville Bantock under the title Sappho's Lodge . She staged this monodrama in September 2015 for the Römerhalle in Bad Kreuznach as part of a scenic recital.

Her staging of the world premiere of Warten auf Gotôd premiered in November 2013 in Wiesbaden.

On February 20, 2016, her version of Tonight: Lola Blau , the musical by Georg Kreisler , premiered at the Frankfurt International Theater.

Continuous theater work

Christa Leiffheidt developed and staged new (mediation) forms of music theater for young audiences with the help of stories "from the old days": A Hogwarts Gallery and Undine, the little mermaid . She also leads workshops on stage presence and body language for role design for singers, among others at Gut Immling, in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt / M. and Michaelstein Monastery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.wiesbadener-burgfestspiele.de/ueber-uns
2. ↑ https://www.wiesbaden.de/kultur/musik/veranstaltungen/burgfestspiele.php
3. ↑ Sonnenberg Castle Festival with Goldoni's “Servants of Two Masters”. Wiesbadener Kurier from June 4, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Ensemble for "The Servant of Two Masters" rehearses for the Castle Festival. Wiesbadener Kurier from July 16, 2014 ( Memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Interview with Nick Benjamin before the premiere of “The Servant of Two Lords” at the Wiesbaden Castle Festival. Wiesbadener Kurier from July 27, 2014 ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Board of Directors of the Burgfestspiele eV association , accessed on May 30, 2015
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ Gambist Hille Perl as a guest at the theater summer in Bad Lauchstädt. Concert announcement on supersonntag-web.de , accessed on July 28, 2015
9. ↑ "Fragrance and madness." Concert announcement of the Wiesbaden Castle Festival , accessed on December 5, 2016.
10. ↑ Beguiling excesses and falls into the darkness - “Scent and Madness” with singing, viola da gamba, lute and texts in the Christophorus Church. In: Wiesbadener Kurier of November 17, 2016, accessed on December 5, 2016.
11. ↑ The beautiful Galathée in the Parisian Court Theater ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Scenic recital: Granville Bantock - Sappho the song cycle. Event notice from September 13, 2015 on bad-kreuznach.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
13. ↑ Sappho the song cycle in the summer of culture
14. ↑ Waiting for Gotôd on the website of Künstlerhaus 43
15. ↑ World premiere of “Warten auf Gotôd” in Künstlerhaus 43 ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 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. in the Wiesbaden courier 
16. ↑ Stefan Michalzik: "Lola Blau" in the International Theater: Lola Blau, this time sensational . In: fr-online.de . ( fr.de [accessed on March 23, 2016]).
17. ↑ http://www.miz.org/kurs_1058.html
18. ↑ http://www.miz.org/kurs_1059.html
19. ↑ http://www.miz.org/kurs_10066.html
20. ^ German Music Information Center