Eberhard Friedrich
Eberhard Friedrich (* 1958 in Darmstadt ) is a German choir director .
Life
Friedrich studied music, conducting and choral conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts ; from 1986 he was engaged at the theater of the city of Koblenz and from 1991 at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden .
From 1998 to 2013 he directed the choir of the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin , after which he moved to the Hamburg State Opera .
During his work in Wiesbaden in the early 1990s, he sought an assistant at the Bayreuth Festival . In 1993 he became assistant to Norbert Balatsch and the following year he became deputy choir director, together with Milan Malý .
Friedrich has been leading the Bayreuth Festival choir since 2000; Because of the concealed orchestra pit in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus , he conducts the performances with his assistants from the sides of the stage with flashlights. During this time, the only boos intended for him by the notoriously critical audience are said to have been due to a mix-up with the director Claus Guth .
He was also guest conductor at the International Bach Academy Stuttgart and worked with the Prague Philharmonic Choir , the Bavarian Radio Choir , the NDR Choir and the RIAS Chamber Choir .
Friedrich is married and has two daughters.
Awards
- 2014 International Opera Award : Anniversary Production (Verdi) for the Verdi trilogy ( La battaglia di Legnano , I due Foscari , I Lombardi , Hamburgische Staatsoper)
- 2014 International Opera Award: best choir of the year (Bayreuth Festival)
- 2003 Grammy Award : best opera recording ( Tannhäuser , Berlin State Opera)
Web links
- Eberhard Friedrich on the website of the Bayreuth Festival
- Entry on Operabase
- Eberhard Friedrich at Allmusic (English)
- Eberhard Friedrich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview from 2006
- Radio interview from 2018 in the SWR Mediathek
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Josef Zaglmann: The "Lord of Voices" in Bayreuth , onetz.de from August 22, 2006, accessed on August 6, 2019.
- ↑ Eberhard Friedrich on the website of the Bayreuth Festival , accessed on August 5, 2019.
- ↑ Ulrike Henningsen: Choir Director Eberhard Friedrich , SWR2 Klassik from July 24, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2019.
- ↑ a b Joachim Mischke: The voice guide at the State Opera , welt.de from October 1, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2019.
- ↑ Stephan Herbert Fuchs: Friends meet friends • Eberhard Friedrich , blog of the Society of Friends of Bayreuth from August 12, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2019.
- ↑ Florian Zinnecker: Handarbeit am Klangwunder , Nordbayerischer Kurier from July 28, 2009, accessed on August 6, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedrich, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German choirmaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |