Franck Evin

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Franck Evin (born May 5, 1960 in Nantes ) is a French lighting designer .

life and work

Franck Evin went to Paris at the age of 19 to study the piano. His website reports on the early years: “At night he accompanied singers in the Café Theater Le Connetable and also began to be interested in lighting. After a disappointing audition with Eliane Richepin, he decided on the combination of music and technology. ”In 1983 he received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture and, with the help of the latter, became assistant to the head of lighting at the Opéra National de Lyon . There he worked with well-known directors such as Ken Russel and Robert Wilson . In 1986 he started at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorfto work as a freelance lighting designer - among others for the director Werner Schroeter and the conductor Eberhard Kloke , who at the time conceived unusual music projects in industrial architecture. This was followed by productions in Nantes, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Paris and Lyon, in Bochum, Bonn, Brussels, Vienna and Los Angeles. In 1993 Evin passed the master's examination for event technology in the field of lighting .

Berlin

At the beginning of the 1995/96 season, he took on the role of artistic director of the lighting department at the Komische Oper in Berlin, where he illuminated new productions by Harry Kupfer , Calixto Bieito , Andreas Homoki , Peter Konwitschny , Barrie Kosky , Hans Neuenfels and others. In Berlin he worked for a broad repertoire, ranging from Handel's Alcina and Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio to Richard Strauss and Emmerich Kálmán, Sergei Prokofjew and Dmitri Shostakovich. In Berlin, a close collaboration developed with Andreas Homoki, who was appointed chief director of the Komische Oper in 2004 and artistic director in 2007. The Richard Strauss productions Capriccio and Frau ohne Schatten at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin in Berlin and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in Tokyo were created together with Homoki . At the same time Evin worked as a guest at numerous opera houses, including Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, Munich, Graz and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Scala in Milan and La Fenice in Venice and the Vlaamse Opera in Ghent and Antwerp.

opus

In 2006 he received the OPUS , the important German stage award in the lighting design category. In the jury's justification, Evin's artistic achievement in the award-winning production - Mozart's Così fan tutte - was extensively praised: “Deep and mysterious blue contrasts with sinful red, the gardens of paradise are robbed of their secrecy by clear daylight. The light thus sets strong accents in the mood, creates the red thread for the dramaturgy of the confused plot. ”However, reference was made to his services as head of lighting for the house:“ He put all his energies into it, and at the Komische Oper continuously a flexible and to set up modern lighting systems and train the staff accordingly so that the house can now present itself as one of the most modern. "

Zurich

In 2010 and 2011 he was invited by the Bayreuth Festival , first for Hans Neuenfels ' new interpretation of Lohengrin , conducted by Andris Nelsons and recorded for television, then for a new Tannhäuser , staged by Sebastian Baumgarten and conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock . When Homoki was appointed artistic director of the Zurich Opera as the successor to Alexander Pereira in 2012 , Evin also switched and took over the artistic direction of the lighting department there. In 2014 he made his first guest appearance at the Vienna State Opera - with Andreas Homoki's new production of Wagner's Lohengrin , in 2015 for the first time at the Theater an der Wien - for Bellini's La straniera , directed by Christof Loy .

Evin is a lecturer for lighting design in the stage design class at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg . In 2016 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival with a new production of Faust in the Großer Festspielhaus . Reinhard von der Thannen is responsible for the staging, stage design and costumes, with Alejo Pérez conducting .

Award

TV portrait

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OPUS: Explanation of the jury , accessed on February 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Die Theatermacher, Volume 12 , accessed on February 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Evin, Franck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lighting designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes