Friedrich Meyer-Oertel
Friedrich Meyer-Oertel (born April 3, 1936 in Leipzig ) is a German opera director .
Meyer-Oertel studied commercial art and composition and oboe at the Academy of Music, Theater Arts and Musicology at the University in Vienna .
At first he assisted at the Vienna and Stuttgart State Operas , before taking over the management of the Opera at the State Theater in Mainz in 1968 . He then worked in similar positions at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Wuppertaler Bühnen - where he worked intensively with Hanna Jordan , among others - and from 1996 to 2004 at the Staatstheater Darmstadt .
His best-known productions include Don Giovanni and Boris Godunow at the new opera in Helsinki , Verdi's Don Carlo in Stockholm , Otello and The Sicilian Vespers in Darmstadt, as well as productions in Munich , Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser in Gothenburg , The Ring of the Nibelung in Mannheim and Wuppertal , the Freischütz at the Cologne Opera , at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie Richard Strauss ' Elektra , at the Komische Oper Berlin Johann Strauss ' Operetta One Night in Venice , in Barcelona Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress . The world premiere of the Bavarian fairy tale " Der Goggolori " by Wilfried Hiller and Michael Ende at the Munich Bavarian State Theater on Gärtnerplatz.
His particular interest in Leoš Janáček led to productions of Jenůfa in Montpellier , Liège , Monte Carlo and Bordeaux , Katja Kabanowa in Wuppertal and the Makropoulos case in Darmstadt.
Trivia
At the end of 2014, the director experienced an appreciation that is probably unique in the theater world at the Mannheim National Theater. Since a renovation of the set of his 36-year-old staging of the bat was too costly, the repertoire piece should be discontinued and the setting disposed of. Mannheim citizens then collected more than 25,000 euros to save the production, which is extremely popular with the audience. On December 28, 2014, the bat was able to be included again in the repertoire of the National Theater.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ An outcry of enthusiasm. Article of December 29, 2014 in Mannheimer Morgen , accessed on January 8, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Meyer-Oertel, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |