Elena Tzavara

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Elena Tzavara (born September 23, 1977 in Hamburg ) is a German opera director and cultural manager.

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Elena Tzavara studied musical theater directing at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin and founded her own Berlin opera company “OFFenbachmusikTheater” at an early age. Her first directorial work was carried out with this ensemble dedicated to operettas .

After assisting and managing production at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the Salzburg Festival , the Ruhrtriennale and the Salzburg Easter Festival , her professional paths led her a.o. a. 2006 with Die Spieler ( Dmitri Schostakowitsch ) and Rothschilds violin ( Benjamin Fleischmann ) for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Greek premiere of the operetta The beautiful Galathée at the Greek National Theater (Athens) . She staged in Germany at the National Theater Weimar , the State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin and at the Cologne Opera .

In 2006 Elena Tzavara received the two-year scholarship from the Deutsche Bank Foundation for the Academy Music Theater Today and the scholarship from the Franco-German Cultural Council . In 2007 Elena Tzavara became a finalist of the European Opera Directing Award.

From 2009 to December 2013 she was director of the Children's Opera in Cologne. Instead of downsizing operas in a way that is suitable for children, she relied on premieres of new operas specially written for children. Her world premieres of Vom Fischer und seine Frau (composition: Ingfried Hoffmann ), the world premiere of Snow White 2011 (composition: Marius Felix Lange ) and the following year the youth opera Border (composition: Ludger Vollmer ) based on motifs from the ancient Greek tragedy Die Kinder should be highlighted of Heracles by Euripides .

In 2012, the Cologne Opera (artistic director Uwe Eric Laufenberg ) and thus also the Cologne Children's Opera were named Opera House of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt . Her staging of Europeras 3 and 4 by John Cage , a co-production of the Eight Bridges Festival and the Cologne Opera, was invited to the Holland Festival in Amsterdam in 2012 .

In 2013 she staged Orpheus in der Unterwelt in a version adapted by herself and Uwe Sochaczwesky for the children's opera in Cologne.

From 2013 to 2016 Elena Tzavara was in charge of the festivals “Music in the Houses of the City” and “Literature in the Houses of the City” in Cologne, Bonn, Hamburg, Munich etc. at the KunstSalon Köln .

At the Salzburg Festival she directed the children's productions The Barber of Seville (2015), The Fairy Queen (2016) and The Drama Director (2017).

Elena Tzavara has been the director of the Junge Oper Stuttgart since the beginning of 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Akademie Musiktheater heute - Scholarship holders 2006–2008. ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Deutsche Bank Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-bank-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ Elena Tzavara on the website of the Cologne Opera
  3. ↑ Stefan Keim: Touching refugee story. Review of Border. The German Stage, 2012
  4. ↑ Elena Tzavara as overall director and festival director Cologne on the website kunstsalon.de
  5. ↑ Children and youth program of the Salzburg Festival 2016 (PDF file) Accessed on November 22, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Tzavara, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd September 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg