Friedrich Rome

Friedrich Rom (born in Vienna ) is an Austrian lighting designer who heads the lighting department at Vienna's Burgtheater .

life and work

After completing his apprenticeship in electrical engineering , Rome a. a. at the theater in der Josefstadt and its branch stages Kammerspiele and Rabenhof as lighting master. This was followed by lighting designs for the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Tiroler Landestheater . Since 1996, Rome has been working regularly as a light and laser designer for the Mörbisch Seefestspiele . For the cabaret Simpl he planned the conversion and renewal of the lighting system, he also set up the venue for the Vienna Graumann Theater and an open-air stage in the Austrian Theater Museum . At the VOESTival 2000 in Linz he took over the light choreography.

In autumn 1996 he was entrusted with the direction of lighting at the Vienna Volksoper , and in 1999 he moved to the Burgtheater in the same position.

In 2002 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival with Zemlinsky's seldom performed opera The King Kandaules , directed by Christine Mielitz and on a stage by Alfred Hrdlicka . Friedrich Rom was also responsible for the lighting design in three important Andrea Breth productions in Salzburg : 2007 for Eugene Onegin in the Great Festival Hall , 2008 and 2009 for Dostoyevsky's Crimes and Punishment in the State Theater , and in 2012 there for Kleist's Prince Friedrich von Homburg . He also designed the lighting for Jürgen Flimm's production of Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon in the Great House in 2009 and for Sven-Eric Bechtolf's Don Giovanni production in the House for Mozart in 2014 . In 2015 he was engaged for the Salzburg experimental version of Brecht's Threepenny Opera at the Felsenreitschule , which was developed by Julian Crouch , Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Martin Lowe .

Rome made guest appearances in Japan and Switzerland, at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp , at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and in 2008 - for Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann , directed by Christine Mielitz - at the Hamburg State Opera . As part of styriarte , he was responsible for the overall technical management and lighting design at Bizet's Carmen in the Helmut-List-Halle in Graz in 2005 , and for Mozart's Idomeneo there in 2008 . At the Vienna State Opera he was given the lighting design for Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 2006 , at the Theater an der Wien in 2008 and 2013 for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress .

In 2005 Rome was nominated for the Nestroy Prize, although this prize has no categories for furnishings or lighting design. Rome was indirectly recognized for several of his works, as the productions were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen , for example . Rome's lighting design for Die Zauberflöte from 2005 is still on the program of the Vienna Volksoper.

A number of his productions have been recorded for television, including Thomas Bernhard's Elisabeth II. In 2003 and Jan Bosses ’s Shakespeare production Much Ado About Nothing (both from the Burgtheater) in 2003 , the 2006 and 2008 operettas Der Graf von Luxemburg and Im Weisse Rößl (both from the Seefestspiele Mörbisch), and in 2007 the Salzburg Eugen Onegin . In 2013 Rome was also engaged for the legendary Austrian television production Wir Staatskünstler .

In 2017 he will be responsible for the lighting design of the play Die Birthdayfeier , directed by Andrea Breth, at the Salzburg Festival .

The artist has teaching assignments for the directing class of the Reinhardt Seminar and for the stage design master class of Erich Wonder at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Web links

• Friedrich Rom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• OperaBase , directory of some opera productions