Jasmine Solfaghari

Jasmin Solfaghari (* 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German opera director .

Life

Solfaghari grew up in Tehran and Freiburg im Breisgau. After completing her diploma in musical theater directing at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg with Götz Friedrich , she was director at the Hamburg State Opera from 1993 to 1998 . As an assistant she also worked for the North German Radio , the West German Radio and Radio Bremen for classic TV productions. Her own productions have taken her to Germany and other European countries.

At the Bremerhaven City Theater from 2001 to 2004 she was the director of the theater with 13 productions of the popular opera repertoire. She has also taught at universities such as the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki , the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, and held master classes at the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera.

From 2004 to 2006 she was senior director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin . In addition to productions at the Cologne Opera, such as Die Bassariden by Hans Werner Henze (2005), The Merry Widow (2007) and Tannhäuser (2008), she was a guest director at the Stadttheater Augsburg (2007), the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (2007) and the Eutiner Festival (2008/09). From 2004 to 2011 Jasmin Solfaghari was professor for dramatic lessons at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . Her version of Figaro's great day , with the premiere of her narrator character LUNA, was commissioned by the Leipzig Opera and performed there in the Great House in 2009.

At the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Finnish National Opera she is in charge of the resumption of the productions by Götz Friedrich ( Das Rheingold , Siegfried ) and Marco Arturo Marelli ( Pelléas et Mélisande ). In 2012 Jasmin Solfaghari staged the Parisian life of Jacques Offenbach at the Dresden State Operetta and the world premiere of L'Absence by Sarah Nemtsov at the Munich Biennale, which was nominated by Klaus Jungheinrich (Frankfurter Rundschau) in the magazine opernwelt as “Best World Premiere of 2012”. The ring for children on the musical comedy was a great success, arousing great international interest. In autumn 2013, the narrator LUNA presented Jasmin Solfaghari's family-friendly version of La Cenerentola to the Viennese audience . Her own version (written with Heiko Mathias Förster) Der Ring in 100 Minuten with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin premiered in April 2014 and was broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur. This was followed by Xerxes at the Hfm Dresden, as well as Aladin and the magic lamp by Nino Rota at the Leipzig Opera. In 2015 she used her narrator character LUNA at the Musikalische Komödie / Oper Leipzig with her new version of Freischütz for children . In 2018 the director staged the Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner with an internationally renowned cast on behalf of the Odense Symfonieorkester in Denmark (Catherine Foster, Torsten Kerl, Jennifer Wilson, Gerhard Siegel and others).

Jasmin Solfaghari gives master classes and gives multilingual lectures a. a. in Germany, the USA, Italy, Israel, Brazil and China.

Your doctorate in musicology is supervised by Thomas Schipperges .

Jasmin Solfaghari is a member of the artistic direction of the “Festive Opera Gala of the AIDS Foundation”, which takes place annually at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and is broadcast on television by rbb and 3sat. Since 2014 she has been chairwoman of the jury for the Richard Wagner Prize for Young Artists competition of the Richard Wagner Foundation, Leipzig.

Jasmin Solfaghari lives as a freelance opera director, university teacher and author ( opera guide for beginners , German-Alemannic and German-Saxon; Schott Verlag) in Berlin.

Web links

• Jasmin Solfaghari homepage
• Jasmin Solfaghari at Operabase (productions)