Hans Schavernoch

Hans Schavernoch (born July 31, 1945 in Gmunden , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian set designer .

life and work

After graduating from high school in Vienna , he studied stage design at the Academy for Applied Arts there from 1963 to 1966 . In the years 1967 to 1983 he had permanent engagements and guest contracts at stages in Austria and Germany . The set designer has been working as a freelance designer since 1983. He created sets for drama , music theater , dance theater and musicals and was the first European to also work in kabuki theater .

Schavernoch was professor for stage design at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

In 1985 Schavernoch made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in the double evening Duke Bluebeard's Castle / Expectations by Béla Bartók and Arnold Schönberg (production by Götz Friedrich ). In 1986 he designed the set for the Salzburg Festival for the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's The Black Mask , directed by Harry Kupfer , with whom Schavernoch regularly worked. Among other things, they designed a Ring des Nibelungen for the Bayreuth Festival and the world premiere of the musical Elisabeth in the Theater an der Wien . In 2014, Kupfer and Schavernoch developed a new Rosenkavalier for the Salzburg Festival.

Schavernoch has also worked for the directors Johannes Schaaf ( Così fan tutte in London and Vienna), Maximilian Schell ( The way of love and death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke at the Deutsche Oper Berlin 1985) and Peter Weck ( Freudiana premiered at the Theater an der Vienna). Schavernoch also worked with the French director Jean-Louis Martinoty , for example on his productions of Le nozze di Figaro , Ariadne auf Naxos or Don Giovanni . His work has taken him to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London , the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as the Paris Opera and numerous other opera houses .

Schavernoch is married and lives with his family in Vienna.

Awards

• 2014: Austrian Music Theater Prize - Golden Schikaneder in the category of best equipment for Elisabeth

Web links

• Short biography with photo on the homepage of the Salzburg Festival

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France, Notice bibliographique, Le nozze di Figaro - Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 2002 ; Retrieved February 9, 2017.
2. ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France, Notice bibliographique, Ariane à Naxos - Paris, Opéra de Paris-Palais Garnier 1986 ; Retrieved February 9, 2017.
3. ^ Vienna State Opera, archive, Don Giovanni (2010) ; Retrieved February 9, 2017.
4. ↑ Awarding of the 2nd Austrian Music Theater Prize on June 17, 2014 . Retrieved April 4, 2015.