Christian Schmidt (General Manager)
Christian Schmidt (* 1958 in Görlitz ) is a German theater and opera director and general manager .
Life
From 1973 Schmidt attended the special school for music at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin , today the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach music school . From 1977 he studied at the local music academy "Hanns Eisler". He started singing and studied opera direction from 1978 to 1983 . As a diploma thesis he staged the comic opera Der Liebestrank by Gaetano Donizetti at the Städtische Bühnen in Magdeburg .
Schmidt began his professional life as an assistant director at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden . 1987 he became director of the Saxony Theater in Radebeul , from September 1991 he took (already provisionally since October 1990) in the second largest travel theaters in Germany and the line as a director , which he then became the youngest director in Germany. Although his contract was extended until 2013, he resigned from his position as the longest-serving director of a state theater in Germany due to the changes in the state theaters to the “Mobile Theater for Saxony” without his own orchestra and was replaced by Manuel Schöbel .
As chairman of the state stage group in the German stage association , Schmidt was a member of the executive committee of the stage association.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sächsische Landesbühnen: Christian Schmidt , accessed on August 12, 2012.
- ↑ 16 premieres this season at the Landesbühnen Sachsen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Director of the State Theaters of Saxony says goodbye , accessed on August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Desperately looking for a new state stage director ( memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (With a photo by Schmidt). Retrieved August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Greeting ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 12, 2012.
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and opera director and general manager |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |