Jochen Schönleber

Jochen Schönleber (born June 3, 1959 in Tübingen ) is a German opera director and director of the Rossini Festival in Wildbad .

Life

After early film work, studies in the humanities at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and scholarships at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples , he became assistant to Juri Ljubimow at the State Operas in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe ; he was also the production manager at the Landeskunstwochen in Tübingen. From 1987 to 1993 he was responsible for the international concert ring and for chamber opera productions in Sindelfingen and also held the position of artistic director of the theater cellar. Since that time he has been active as a director in the field of spoken and music theater, often together with the dramaturge Annette Hornbacher until 2009 .

Schönleber has been artistic director of the Rossini Opera Festival in Wildbad since 1992 and has developed the festival into a world-renowned experimental facility for bel canto talents, for Rossini's works, for unknown pieces and the entire bel canto repertoire. Since 2004 he has also been director of the BelCanto Academy.

His staging list includes Kassandra (1988), Weisse Rose (1989), Maria Stuart (1990) , among others . At Rossini in Wildbad Edipo a Colono (1992), Die himmlische Hochzeit / Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1994), Sigismondo (1995), Eduardo e Cristina (1997), L'accademia di musica (2003), Semiramide (2005 ), Mosè in Egitto (2006), Il signor Bruschino (2009), La Cenerentola (2010), Il turco in Italia (2011), I briganti (2012) and the first complete performance of Rossini's monumental work Guillaume Tell (2013).

Web links

• Website of the Rossini Festival in Wildbad