Gabriele Rech
Gabriele Rech (* in Duisburg ) is a German opera director and university professor at the University of Music and Dance Cologne , Aachen department .
Live and act
Growing up in a family of doctors, Gabriele Rech was introduced to music as a child in her musical parental home by taking ballet, piano and singing lessons and aroused her interest in her future career. After graduating from high school, she studied German and English at the Ruhr University in Bochum and, after completing her master's degree, got a first job in dramaturgy and direction at the Schauspielhaus Neuss .
She then moved to the Musiktheater im Revier , where she worked as assistant director to Christof Loy , Uwe Eric Laufenberg and Dietrich Hilsdorf, among others . She received the Gelsenkirchen Theater Prize for her first own directorial debut of the opera Madama Butterfly . She then directed more than 60 productions as a freelance opera director at home and abroad, including at the stages in Cologne, Nuremberg, Bielefeld, Münster, Wiesbaden, Bremen, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Weimar, Dortmund, Linz, Graz, Antwerp, Kassel and Mannheim. Her productions of the Magic Flute in Weimar, the Winterreise in Bielefeld and Hoffmann's Stories in Kassel were selected by the magazine opernwelt as the best in each case compared to other productions. For her directorial work on the opera La nunne sanglante by Charles Gounod in Osnabrück in 2008, Rech received the audience award for the best production of the year. In addition, she has also been nominated for the women's theater award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 2010, Gabriele Rech accepted an offer at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne, where she is professor for scenic teaching and project coordination in the Aachen department.
Works (selection)
A detailed overview of her directorial activities since 1992 can be found under the heading "Staging" on her homepage.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Right, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |