Federik Mirdita
Federik Mirdita (born January 26, 1931 in Tirana , Albania , † February 18, 2016 in Vienna ) was an Austrian director .
Mirdita grew up in Graz and attended the Lichtenfelsgymnasium. He then studied art history and theater studies in Vienna and made his first attempts at theater on small stages in Vienna. From 1955 to 1960 he was assistant director at the Vienna State Opera.
Director (opera and drama)
Mirdita has worked as a director on more than 40 stages at home and abroad and has directed 200 times.
Mozart was at the center of these works with 31 productions of eleven works, for example La Clemenza di Tito in Vienna ( State Opera , Theater an der Wien ) - New York - Paris - Naples - Bordeaux - Salzburg, Idomeneo in Paris - Buenos Aires - Bremen - Salzburg - Bordeaux.
Productions (selection)
Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Bremen, Buenos Aires (Colon), Darmstadt, Graz ( Iván Eröds Orpheus ex Machina at the Opera House), Innsbruck Festival of Early Music , Kiel, Moscow (Bolshoi), Munich, Naples, New York, Paris, Ossiach ( Benjamin Britten's Prodigal Son from 1975 to 1997), San Francisco, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal, Zurich, Vienna (State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Volksoper, Theater in der Josefstadt, Schönbrunner Schlosstheater).
Baroque operas:
- Claudio Monteverdi : Il Ritorno d'Ulisse
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber : Arminio
- Henry Purcell : Dido and Aeneas - King Arthur - The Masque of Death and Love
- Georg Friedrich Handel : Saul - Jephta - Giulio Caesare with the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Most important production according to own assessment: Handel's Jephta in the Salzburg Collegiate Church at the Salzburg Festival 1983 to 1986
Mirdita held a managerial position at the Braunschweig State Theater (as senior theater director), at the Linz State Theater (as opera director), at the Salzburg State Theater (as artistic director) at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna (directing class).
literature
- Alexander Rausch : Mirdita, Federik. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Web links
- Federik Mirdita in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Archive recordings with Federik Mirdita in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (interviews, radio reports)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Director Federik Mirdita dies after an accident. orf.at, February 18, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ↑ wienerzeitung.at
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ Redaktion.0catch.com (PDF)
- ↑ bolshoimoscow.com
- ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1985 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mirdita, Federik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tirana , Albania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 2016 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |