Dietrich Hilsdorf

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Dietrich Hilsdorf (* 1948 in Darmstadt ) is a German theater, musical, operetta and opera director .

Act

With over 100 productions in the field of drama , opera and musicals , Hilsdorf was present nationwide, but also in other European countries ( Catania and Vienna ). The theater critics celebrated him as one of the most important classics directors in Germany . In 1999 he became musical director of the year with “Jekyll and Hyde” at the Musical Theater Bremen . In 2007 he received the German Theater Prize DER FAUST in the category “Best Direction for Music Theater ” in Munich . Hilsdorf also celebrated great successes in opera with Mozart , Verdi and Handel . In the meantime Hilsdorf has also turned to the operetta subject.

Career

theatre

Hilsdorf studied acting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (among others with Günther Rühle ). He went to the Frankfurter Schauspiel and became assistant director to Peter Palitzsch and Hans Neuenfels . Hilsdorf later moved to Paul Hager at the Theater Dortmund and then as in-house director and senior director at the Ulm Theater . His time in Ulm between 1981 and 1984 recorded a total of 17 productions, including plays by Schiller , Shakespeare , Chekhov , Wedekind , Kleist , Miller , Kroetz and Vitrac .

In 1985 Rühle brought him back to the Frankfurter Schauspiel when he took over the management there. Countless Hilsdorf productions followed, including Niebergall's “ Datterich ”, Giraudoux's “ Die Irre von Chaillot ”, Kuhlmann's “Wishes and Diseases of the Nomads”, Harald Mueller's “ Totenfloß ”, but also classics such as Goethe , Kleist, Hauptmann and Sophocles . The Fassbinder piece " The Garbage, the City and Death " alone led to controversy.

Opera

As early as 1981 Hilsdorf, discovered by Artistic Director Claus Leininger, switched to the opera at the Gelsenkirchener Musiktheater im Revier with Eugen Onegin . With his Gelsenkirchen Mozart cycle, his Verdi operas at the Aalto Theater in Essen and his series of Handel productions in Bonn, he set standards for music theater. Recently staged Hilsdorf in Leipzig "The Abduction from the Seraglio" and in Wiesbaden - as a further development of the same production from the 2003/04 season in Münster - Verdi's " Don Carlos ". These appealed to audiences and critics alike.

While his provocative new interpretations of classics had previously caused audience protests, Hilsdorf productions are now accepted without any problems. Dietrich Hilsdorf stages rousing musical theater, but almost exclusively beyond the big opera houses . Hilsdorf is also one of the greats in his field in the field of drama , operetta and musicals . The choice of his means has become more sovereign and when staging opera choirs - a problem for many opera directors - Hilsdorf " knows " every choir member and every extras by name and thus the role predefined in the social context. According to Hilsdorf, he could not do anything with naturalism , but with realism .

In the 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2019 seasons, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf staged a new production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen , directed by Dietrich Hilsdorf.

Directing work in music theater (selection)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro , music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district, premiere in November 1990
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni , Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, premiere on October 3, 1992
  • Paul Dessau: The Condemnation of Lukullus , Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, premiere on October 22, 1994
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio , music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district, premiere on December 25, 1995
  • Georges Bizet: Carmen , Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, premiere on March 28, 1998
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera , Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, premiere on November 20, 1999
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller , Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, premiere on February 10, 2001
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth , Staatstheater Wiesbaden, premiere on November 16, 2002
  • Azio Corghi : Sen'ja, Städtische Bühnen Münster, premiere on March 7, 2003 (world premiere)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Belshazzar , Theater Bonn, premiere on May 11, 2003
  • Giacomo Puccini: Iltrittico , Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, premiere on October 17, 2003
  • Franz Lehr: The Merry Widow , Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, premiere on December 6, 2003
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes Passion , Wiesbaden State Theater, premiere on February 19, 2004
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio , Leipzig Opera, 2006
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos , Staatstheater Wiesbaden, premiere on September 16, 2006
  • Sergej Prokofjew: The love for the three oranges , Theater Chemnitz, premiere on October 28, 2006
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz , Wiesbaden State Theater, premiere on January 26, 2008
  • Péter Eötvös : Love and other Demons, Theater Chemnitz, premiere on January 31, 2008 (German premiere)
  • Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde , Staatstheater Wiesbaden, premiere on March 21, 2009
  • Richard Wagner: Die Walküre , Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, premiere on May 24, 2009
  • Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème , Theater Chemnitz, premiere on April 11, 2010
  • Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz , co-production Theater Chemnitz, Theater Bonn, Volksoper Vienna, premieres on June 12, 2010 (Chemnitz), May 8, 2011 (Bonn), April 20, 2013 (Vienna)
  • Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea , Cologne Opera, premiere on October 16, 2010
  • Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman , Cologne Opera, premiere on May 4, 2012
  • Torsten Rasch: The Duchess of Malfi , Theater Chemnitz, premiere on March 23, 2013 (German premiere)
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore , Volksoper Vienna, premiere on November 16, 2013
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Aida , Theater Bonn, premiere on February 16, 2014
  • Hans Werner Henze: Elegy for young lovers , Staatstheater Wiesbaden, premiere on May 1, 2014
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades , music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district, premiere on June 22, 2014
  • Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos , Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, premiere on September 27, 2014
  • Emmerich Kálmán: Die Csárdásfürstin , music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district, premiere on December 19, 2014
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste , Nationaltheater Mannheim, premiere on February 21, 2015
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte , Theater Bonn, premiere on December 6, 2015
  • Otto Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor , Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, premiere on June 24, 2016
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte , Staatstheater Darmstadt, premiere on October 29, 2016
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff , Cologne Opera, premiere on October 30, 2016
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Attila , Theater Bonn, premiere on January 29, 2017

Personal

Hilsdorf was married to Gabi Dauenhauer, actress and artistic director of the Courage Theater in Essen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theater Chemnitz ( Memento from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The Faust 2007
  3. ↑ a b Stefan Keim: Dietrich Hilsdorf's direction inspires opera connoisseurs as well as laypeople. In: The world . January 26, 2006, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "The new ring on the Rhine"
  5. ↑ The Ring on the Rhine

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher , (Ed.) Theater Lexikon, authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV), Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
  • Christoph Kammertöns : Dietrich Hilsdorf , in: Lexikon der Oper , Vol. 1, ed. by Elisabeth Schmierer, Laaber: Laaber 2002, pp. 687–689.

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personal data
SURNAME Hilsdorf, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt