Claus Guth

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Claus Guth (2006)

Claus Guth (* 1964 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German theater director who is particularly successful in the field of music theater . Claus Guth first studied philosophy , German literature and theater studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, later theater and opera directing with Cornel Franz at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich .

Productions in the field of contemporary music theater

Claus Guth began his career as a director, especially in demand for contemporary works. Since 1990 he has staged a series of world premieres - as part of the Munich Biennale a . a. The Mother of Black Winged Dreams by Hanna Kulenty (in coproduction with the Hamburg State Opera ), 1996, Chaya Czernowins Pnima… ins Innere and most recently Berenice by Johannes Maria Staud (2004; libretto: Durs Grünbein , in coproduction with the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz). In 1995 he directed El Cimarrón by Hans Werner Henze in Atlanta , USA. Further world premieres of contemporary music theater works were given by Claus Guth u. a. to the Salzburg Festival ( Cronaca del luogo by Luciano Berio , 1999), to the Theater Basel ( Schwarzerde by Klaus Huber , 2001, and Invisible Land by Helmut Oehring and Henry Purcell , 2006), as well as to the Dresden Semperoper ( Celan by Peter Ruzicka , WP 2001). In 2003 he staged the world premiere of the opera Das Beben by Awet Terterjan at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich . The collaboration with Helmut Oehring continues in 2013 with SehnSuchtMEER or Vom Fliegende Holländer ( Deutsche Oper am Rhein ) and AscheMOND or THE FAIRY QUEEN at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in the Schiller Theater Berlin. In 2019 the world premiere of the opera Heart Chamber by Chaya Czernowin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin was added.

Further productions

Claus Guth directed Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , Otello in Dortmund and Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in Nuremberg . In 2001 he staged King Arthur by Henry Purcell in Munich's Prinzregententheater as a joint project for all courses at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding . At the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, productions of Albert Lortzing's comic opera Der Wildschütz (1998) were created - this performance was recorded for television by the Bavarian Radio ; also in 2001 Werner Egks Der Revisor , as well as in 2002 Wagner's youth work Das Liebesverbot (in coproduction with the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding) and in 2007 In mir sounds a song. An operetta topography (in this project Claus Guth dealt with the operetta genre for the first time).

In 2004, the director, who has since advanced to become one of the most prominent representatives of the younger generation, worked on Rossini's Der Barbier von Sevilla (later also shown in Düsseldorf and Munich) at the Basel Theater , after he had already celebrated success there with Wagner's Tannhäuser and Weber's Freischütz (2003). In 2005 he performed Mozart's Lucio Silla at the Wiener Festwochen (at the Theater an der Wien ). Guth's new production of Verdi's Luisa Miller premiered on May 28, 2007 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Claus Guth thus celebrated his debut on the most popular stage in the world. Claus Guth worked continuously while Alexander Pereira was in charge of the Zurich Opera House . After Iphigénie en Tauride (2001), there were Fierrabras by Franz Schubert (musical direction: Franz Welser-Möst , 2003), Ariane et Barbe-Bleue by Paul Dukas (2005), Ariadne auf Naxos (2006) by Richard Strauss and the Wagner Operas Tristan and Isolde (2008) and Parsifal (2011).

Since the premiere of Berio's Cronaca del luogo in 1999, Claus Guth has been a regular at the Salzburg Festival: in 2000 he staged Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (2001 also at the Zurich Opera House and 2002 at the Darmstadt State Theater ). In the Mozart year 2006, a new production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (musical direction: Nikolaus Harnoncourt ) as well as a performance of Mozart's fragment Zaide in combination with the work Adama by the Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin (the latter as a world premiere of a commissioned work for the Claus Guth initiated the process). In the following years Claus Guth also staged Mozart's other two Da Ponte operas at the Salzburg Festival ( Don Giovanni , 2008, and Così fan tutte , 2009). All three Mozart Da Ponte productions were on the program of the Salzburg Festival for several years and were continuously developed. The production of Don Giovanni was also shown at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin in 2012.

In 2003 Claus Guth made his debut with The Flying Dutchman at the Bayreuth Festival . Since then he has staged all of the Wagner operas in the Bayreuth canon: 2007 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Semperoper Dresden (this production was also shown at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona ), in 2008 Tristan und Isolde at the Zurich Opera House (also at the Deutsche Oper on Rhine shown in Düsseldorf); from 2008 to 2010 Guth developed a new production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen together with the Hamburg general music director Simone Young ; in June 2010 followed Tannhäuser and the Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg at the Vienna State Opera (he had staged this work for the first time at the Basel Theater in 2002); In 2011 Guth's production of Parsifal premiered at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (coproduced with the Zurich Opera House, where the performance was performed in the same year under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti ). It concluded with a new production of Lohengrin for the inauguration of the new season at La Scala in Milan on December 7, 2012 under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim .

One focus is the staging of works by Richard Strauss. This is how u. a. Ariadne auf Naxos (first in 1996 in Bremen, then in a new production at the Zurich Opera House in 2006), Daphne at the Frankfurt Opera (2010; this production brought Claus Guth the German Theater Prize Der Faust ) and The Woman Without a Shadow at La Scala in Milan (2012 , musical direction: Daniel Barenboim ; 2014 also at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London under the musical direction of Semyon Bychkov ). A regular collaboration connects the director with the Theater an der Wien . In 2009 he brought Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah onto the stage in a scenic version. The biblical texts of the oratorio were combined with an additionally invented plot; the choirs (sung by the Arnold Schoenberg Choir ) combined with a strongly stylized choreography, as further levels were added a dancer ( Paul Lorenger , with whom Claus Guth has worked for many years) and a deaf performer (Nadia Kichler) who is in the Expressed sign language . The performance was recorded by ORF and was also released on DVD. Further work at the Theater an der Wien: A cycle of completely preserved works by Claudio Monteverdi , which began in 2011 with L'Orfeo , continued in 2012 with Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and is expected to end in 2015 with L'incoronazione di Poppea . In December 2013 he worked on another oratorio in a scenic version at the Theater an der Wien: The religious drama Lazarus by Franz Schubert , which has remained a fragment , supplemented with other vocal works by Schubert and instrumental works by Charles Ives .

In November 2012 Claus Guth directed Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Frankfurt Opera. For this production he was awarded the German Theater Prize Der Faust in the category Best Direction for Music Theater in 2013 - for the second time after 2010 for Strauss' Daphne .

For years, Claus Guth has had a close artistic collaboration with the stage and costume designer Christian Schmidt . He also works with the choreographer Ramses Sigl . Claus Guth lives in Munich and has three children. His father Wilfried Guth was the spokesman for the board of directors and later chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank.

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SURNAME Guth, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main