Dirk Girschik
Dirk Girschik (* 1985 in Dresden ) is a German musician and opera director .
Live and act
Girschik began his musical training on the piano and double bass as a child . In his youth he played the double bass in the southern Brandenburg string orchestra as well as in the chamber orchestra and youth symphony orchestra Cottbus, before joining the rock band Black Tequila as a bass player . With this he recorded a total of 4 albums and toured Europe.
After studying electrical engineering at the TU Dresden , Girschik trained as a stage, sound and lighting technician at the Theater Neue Bühne Senftenberg . During his subsequent activity as a sound engineer at the Neue Bühne with Intendant Sewan Latchinian , he worked with numerous artists (including Hans-Eckardt Wenzel ) and developed his first directing concepts.
From 2014 to 2019 Dirk Girschik studied musical theater directing at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, staged numerous productions and in 2019 was awarded the academic degree Bachelor of Music . In 2016 he took over the production management for New Scenes III at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and assisted at the State Opera Berlin and in Salzburg with Andrea Moses . In 2019 Girschik directed Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , opening the Bayreuth Festival . The new staging as a children's opera received international recognition.
Dirk Girschik has been studying directing - musical theater and acting at the Munich University of Music and Drama since 2019 .
Productions (selection)
- Oh, Gretchen! after Johann W. von Goethe , Berlin, 2015
- Eugene Onegin by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky , Berlin, 2016
- Xerxes by Georg F. Handel , Berlin, 2016
- Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang A. Mozart , Berlin, 2016
- Il mondo della luna by F. Joseph Haydn , Berlin, 2017
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner , Bayreuth Festival, 2019
Assistants (selection)
- The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner , Bayreuth Festival with Jan Philipp Gloger , 2018
- The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang A. Mozart , Mozart Week Salzburg with Andrea Moses , 2018
- The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner, Buenos Aires (planned)
- Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner, Tokyo (planned)
References
- ↑ Dirk Girschik stages children's opera in Bayreuth. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ^ Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Dirk Girschik - Direction course at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Retrieved October 25, 2019 (German).
- ↑ GRADUATES BACHELOR / MASTER / DIPLOMA - Direction course at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. Retrieved October 25, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Opera photography by Detlef Kurth. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Kulturportal - Dirk Girschik | Music, theater | Berlin [Charlottenburg]. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ The Mastersingers for Children. Retrieved October 25, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Joshua Barone: Wagner's Sprawling Operas, Shrunk to Child Size . In: The New York Times . August 9, 2019, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 25, 2019]).
- ↑ Manuel Brug: Are you up for “Meistersinger”? The children's opera as a Bayreuth jewel in the opera crown. But the WoWa ceremony could also be seen and heard. In: Brug's classics. July 25, 2019, accessed on October 25, 2019 (German).
- ^ Clemens Haustein: "Meistersinger" in Bayreuth: Yesterday night pillow fight . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 25, 2019]).
- ↑ Dirk Girschik, directing student at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girschik, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |