Christian Schmidt (set designer)

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Christian Schmidt (* 1966 in Coburg ) is a German stage and costume designer .

Life

Schmidt studied stage design at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Erich Wonder .

Create

Together with the director Claus Guth he realized the stage design for Iphigénie en Tauride at the Salzburg Festival and Wagner's Der fiegen Holländer for the Bayreuth Festival, as well as Albert Lortzing's “ Der Wildschütz ”, Werner Egks “ Der Revisor ” and at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich Richard Wagner's youth work “ Das Liebesverbot ” designed. He designed other furnishings for the Zurich Opera House and the Vienna Festival in 2005.

For the world premieres of the operas by Giorgio Battistelli , Chaya Czernowins , Johannes Maria Stauds and Peter Ruzickas at the Munich Biennale and the Dresden Semperoper , he took on the entire implementation of the set design and costume.

For the director Hans Neuenfels he designed the equipment for Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, which was named “Production of the Year” in 1998.

Theater critics voted Christian Schmidt “Set Designer of the Year 2003” in the magazine Theater heute .

In 2016 it was announced that Schmidt, together with Tatyana van Walsum, would be responsible for the equipment for the Aida at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 .

Works (selection)

Stage design

Awards

  • 1998 "Production of the Year"
  • 2003 "Set Designer of the Year 2003" (Opera World)
  • 2005 "Costume Designer of the Year" (Opera World)
  • 2006 Rolf Mares Prize for his stage design for Simon Boccanegra at the Hamburg State Opera

media

  • DVD "Iphigénie en Tauride", Zurich Opera House, 2003

Web links

  • Monika Rittershaus: Schmidt, Christian. (No longer available online.) Salzburgfestival.at, archived from the original on September 9, 2006 ; accessed on October 20, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NORMA - great singers, questionable production. In: opera figures. March 9, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg