Elisabeth Sobotka

Elisabeth Sobotka (born on 7. October 1965 in Vienna is) an Austrian opera director and, since January 2015 artistic director of the Bregenz Festival .

Life

Elisabeth Sobotka studied musicology at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1990 with a thesis on the conductor Franco Faccio . She then worked in the artistic offices of the Salzburg Festival and Jeunesses Musicales Austria in Vienna. Louwrens Langevoort brought her to Leipzig in 1992 , where she worked with Udo Zimmermann for two and a half years . From 1994 she was chief dispatcher of the Vienna State Opera for eight years . In autumn 2002 she was engaged by Daniel Barenboim and Peter Mussbach as the opera director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden .

From 2009 to 2014 Elisabeth Sobotka was artistic director of the Graz Opera . Her directorship was generally seen as very successful, as she was not only able to engage aspiring singers and conductors, but also a number of well-known directors, such as Johannes Erath and Stefan Herheim , who staged Carmen , Rusalka , Manon Lescaut and Serse in Graz . During Sobotka's management, Erath worked on a Lohengrin and a production of Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt . Most of the Erath and Herheim productions by their directors have also been shown at a number of other opera houses.

On January 1, 2015, she succeeded David Pountney as artistic director of the Bregenz Festival . In her first year as artistic director in Bregenz, she presented Turandot as Spiel am See and Les Contes d'Hoffmann as a large festival opera in the Festspielhaus. It was staged by Marco Arturo Marelli and Stefan Herheim , and it was conducted by Paolo Carignani and Johannes Debus. At the end of 2019, her contract was extended to September 2024.

Elisabeth Sobotka is Deputy Chairwoman of the University Council of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Board Member of the Siftung Oper in Berlin and a member of the Executive Committee of the Executive Master in Arts Administration (EMAA) at the University of Zurich.

literature

• Elisabeth Sobotka , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 47/2012 from November 20, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

See also

• Opera casts at the Bregenz Festival from 2015

Web links

• Elisabeth Sobotka is the new director of the opera . In: orf.at , January 17, 2007, accessed on July 10, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elisabeth Sobotka: Franco Faccio - his position in Italian opera history . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1990.
2. ^ Wilhelm Sinkovicz: Elisabeth Sobotka: Bregenz has a new director . In: diepresse.com , Die Presse , July 17, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2013.
3. ^ Program booklet of the Bregenz Festival 2015, pages 12 and 24
4. ↑ Bregenz Festival extend Sobotka's contract until 2024. In: DerStandard.at . December 13, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .