Christina Scheppelmann
Christina Scheppelmann (born 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German opera director.
Life
Christina Scheppelmann grew up bilingual in Hamburg. As a child and adolescent, she took part in musical performances by the Alsterspatzen , the children's choir of the Hamburg State Opera , which also shaped her professional dream. After graduating from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium , she completed an apprenticeship at the private bank Hesse Newman and worked as a bank clerk when, at the age of 22, she received the offer to work in an artist agency in Milan . After working as an assistant in the La Fenice opera houses in Venice and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona , she became artistic director of the San Francisco Opera at the age of 29 . From 2001 she directed the Washington National Opera under the artistic director Plácido Domingo .
In 2012 Scheppelmann became director of the Royal Opera House Muscat in Muscat ( Oman ), which had been founded a year earlier as the first opera house on the Arabian Peninsula. She has been the artistic director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu since the 2014/15 season . In August 2019, she will move to Seattle Opera as the new General Director.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christina Scheppelmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Christina Scheppelmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joachim Mischke: From Alsterspatz to the Opera Director in Barcelona , in: Hamburger Abendblatt , 23 May 2015
- ^ Great Opera in the Desert of Oman , in: FAZ , November 30, 2014
- ↑ swr.de: SWR2 (from March 22, 2019) - German becomes artistic director at the Seattle Opera
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Scheppelmann, Christina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |