Christof Hetzer

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Christof Hetzer (born 1976 in Salzburg is) an Austrian stage and costume designer .

life and work

Hetzer studied with Erich Wonder in the master class for stage and costume design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and graduated in 2001 with distinction. Since then he has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer in drama and opera. He worked and works with well-known directors such as Pierre Audi , Constanze Macras , Hans Neuenfels and Christian Stückl , and was hired by the following theaters, among others: the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, the Theater Bremen , the Theater der Stadt Köln , the Heidelberg Theater , the Lucerne Theater , the Basel Theater , the Munich Volkstheater and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Frankfurt Opera , the Mannheim National Theater and the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp.

Hetzer has a long-standing collaboration with director David Hermann . In 2004 they brought out Mozart's early work Ascanio in Alba at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. This production was also shown at the 2006 Salzburg Festival , conducted by Ádám Fischer . In 2007 he furnished the third part of a Monteverdi trilogy at the Frankfurt Opera, as well as Claudel / Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Basel Theater. It followed, again together with Hermann, Sing for me, death! at the Ruhrtriennale 2009, L'Heure espagnole / La vida breve and Charpentiers Médée at the Frankfurt Opera. The collaboration between director and set designer continued with Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin in Lucerne, Berlioz ' Les Troyens at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , 2012 with Rossini's Il turco in Italia at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Mozart's Magic Flute at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp and Lachenmann's Das Mädchen with the sulfur sticks at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

At the Komische Oper Berlin he designed the set for Hans Neuenfels' production of Verdi's La Traviata . Together with Pierre Audi developed the world premiere of Henzes Gisela! or: The strange and memorable ways of happiness at Ruhr.2010 and Handel's Orlando at the Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels. This production was also shown at the Holland Festival 2014 in Amsterdam, conducted by René Jacobs . Again with Audi, the costumes for Wagner's Parsifal in Amsterdam followed (the set here was by the sculptor Anish Kapoor ) and in 2014 the stage and costumes for Verdi's Rigoletto at the Vienna State Opera

In 2012 the artist made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival - with a new production of the Flying Dutchman . It staged Jan Philipp Gloger , it conducted by Christian Thielemann . Karin Jud designed the costumes . In 2015 the artist was hired for the first time by the Bregenz Festival , where he worked for the first time with director Stefan Herheim and costume designer Esther Bialas . The local new production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann was received with great applause from the audience and the press and was then shown by the Cologne Opera . Again with Herheim at the director's desk, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro followed at the Hamburg State Opera ; Gesine Völlm designed the costumes . Janáček's Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Case) premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in February 2016 . It staged David Hermann , it conducted by Donald Runnicles .

A new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde by Pierre Audi is scheduled for May 2016 , with Daniele Gatti conducting. A Deborah Warner production of Shakespeare's Der Sturm on the Pernerinsel in Hallein is planned for July 2016 - as part of the Salzburg Festival - Christof Hetzer will design the stage and costumes, Jean Kalman the lighting.

Award

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kulturserver NRW: Christof Hetzer , accessed on February 9, 2016
  2. ^ Zachary Woolfe: Review: 'Turandot' and 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann,' Spectacle and Substance at Bregenz Festival , New York Times , August 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Dieter Bub: Dream of Eternal Life: David Hermanns Věc Makropulos at the Deutsche Oper , bachtrack, February 22, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Hetzer, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg