Christian Pöppelreiter

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Christian Pöppelreiter (born April 22, 1941 in Dresden ) is a German opera director .

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Christian Pöppelreiter studied viola , then did a two-year orchestral internship and sat in with Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper in Berlin.

He worked as an opera director on various stages in the GDR, a. a. in Dresden, Rostock and Berlin, since 1978 at various foreign theaters. In November 1981, through the agency of the agent at the time, Ioan Holender, he was entrusted with the world premiere of the “Wölfli Scenes” at the Graz Opera . In 1986 he received a visiting professorship at what was then the Graz University of Music, which was converted into a full professorship in 1988. With this, Pöppelreiter automatically received Austrian citizenship. From 2000 to September 30, 2009, Pöppelreiter was a full professor at the University of Art in Graz . He also staged on numerous important stages. He worked closely with the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken during the management of Kurt Josef Schildknecht , where, in addition to Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in the sets by Daniel Libeskind and Das Rheingold , he primarily staged a highly acclaimed cycle "New Vienna School" ( Lulu , Moses and Aron , Wozzeck ).

Pöppelreiter was, true to his principle of letting students work out entire works, responsible for the staging of around 30 opera productions at the Graz University of Art. As a full university professor and head of the Institute for Music Theater at the Graz University of Art, Pöppelreiter was also the project manager at the Graz University of Art for the construction of the MUMUTH - House for Music and Music Theater, which opened in March 2009 .

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SURNAME Pöppelreiter, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden