Joachim Klein (lighting designer)
Joachim Klein (born 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lighting designer who mainly works for opera productions .
Life
After completing his training, Joachim Klein worked at the Alte Oper Frankfurt from 1985 to 1994 , where he qualified as a lighting master in 1991 and developed his first own lighting equipment. In 1994 he was a member of the lighting team at the Bayreuth Festival .
In 1994 he was hired as lighting master and lighting designer at the Frankfurt Opera. He has headed the lighting department there since 2013. His work at his parent company includes productions by Àlex Ollé (double evening La Damoiselle élue , Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher ), Tilmann Köhler ( Radamisto and Xerxes ), Benedict Andrews ( Stiffelio ), Johannes Erath ( Otello and Giulio Cesare in Egitto ), Harry Kupfer ( Faust's Damnation and The Gambler ), Barrie Kosky ( Dido and Aeneas / Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Carmen ), David Hermann ( Médée ), Vincent Boussard ( Adriana Lecouvreur and Ezio ), Brigitte Fassbaender ( Ariadne auf Naxos and Paul Bunyan ), and Walter Sutcliffe ( The Ghost Sonata by Aribert Reimann ). Other works included the world premiere of Detlev Glanert's Caligula , Alexander von Zemlinsky's short operas A Florentine Tragedy and The Dwarf and the Excursions of Mr. Brouček by Leoš Janáček .
But he also makes regular guest appearances at major opera houses in Europe and North America, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Madrid, Munich, Naples, Oslo, Seville and Vienna. At the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , Klein designed the lighting for Boris Godunow (staged by David Hermann), at the Hamburg State Opera for The Cunning Little Fox (staged by Johannes Erath), at the Salzburg Easter Festival 2011 for Salome (staged by Stefan Herheim ) and at the Bavarian State Opera State Opera 2009 for Lucrezia Borgia (staged by Christof Loy ). During Elisabeth Sobotka's directorship, Joachim Klein regularly worked together with Oper Graz , on which - in addition to Darrel Toulon's dance piece Nomaden - he worked twice with two well-known directors: with Peter Konwitschny for La traviata and Queen of Spades , with Johannes Erath for Elektra and The Dead City . Konwitschny's Traviata was finally shown at the English National Opera and at the Theater an der Wien . In the 2015/16 season he was responsible for the lighting design of two new productions at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich: Prokofiev's Der fierige Engel , staged by Barrie Kosky , and Verdi's Un ballo in maschera , staged by Johannes Erath.
At the Glyndebourne Festival 2015 he worked again with Barrie Kosky and designed the lighting for Georg Friedrich Handel's Oratorio I.
In March 2017 he designed the lighting for Georg Friedrich Händel's opera Rodelinda , staged by Claus Guth , in the Teatro Real in Madrid , and in November 2017 for the world premiere of Herrmann's Der Mieter , staged by Johannes Erath .
Recent work
2018 (all Frankfurt Opera)
- Capriccio , directed by Brigitte Fassbaender
- From a house of the dead , directed by David Hermann
- Tri Sestry , directed by Dorothea Kirschbaum
- I Puritani , directed by Vincent Boussard
2019
- La Forza del Destino , director: Tobias Kratzer (Oper Frankfurt)
- Król Roger , director: Johannes Erath (Oper Frankfurt)
- Agrippina , directed by Barrie Kosky (Bavarian State Opera Munich, Prinzregententheater)
- Manon Lescaut , director: Àlex Ollé (Oper Frankfurt)
Awards
- 2014: Knight of Illumination Award (London) for the best lighting design in Great Britain in the opera category
- 2016: Knight of Illumination Award (London) for the best lighting design in Great Britain in the opera category.
- 2017: Helpmann Award (Adelaide) for the best lighting design in Australia - for Saul
Web links
- Short biography of Joachim Klein on the Graz Opera website (with picture)
- Short biography of Joachim Klein on the website of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich
- Short biography of Joachim Klein on the Frankfurt Opera website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knight Of Illuminalion Awards ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Overview of the 2014 award winners.
- ↑ Knight Of Illuminalion Awards , overview of the 2016 award winners.
- ↑ Helpmann Awards | Nominees and winners 2017. Accessed August 19, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lighting designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |