Klaus Froboese

Klaus Froboese (born August 31, 1947 in Bremen ; † January 25, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German opera director and director of the Halle Opera House from 1991 to 2008 .

Career

While studying opera directing at the University of Music in Munich (among others with Heinz Arnold ), he worked for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the Bayreuth Festival and was an assistant director in Munich and Augsburg.

After engagements as assistant director and director a. a. in Braunschweig and Bern he was senior director at the Regensburg Theater  and the Bern City Theater from 1976 to 1991 . During this time numerous productions took place in Germany and abroad (including Vienna, Klagenfurt, Rome, Trieste, Barcelona, ​​Lisbon, Dublin, Tehran); Froboese also taught at the Institute for Performing Arts in Hartford / Connecticut.

From 1991 to 2008 Klaus Froboese was artistic director of the Halle Opera House . In this function he made a name for himself, especially in the field of baroque opera, u. a. as part of the Halle International Handel Festival. In 1992, at his instigation, the Handel Festival Orchestra was founded, at that time the only ensemble within an opera orchestra in the world that specialized in baroque music.

Under Froboese's directorship, the Halle Opera House successfully performed concerts and stage productions in Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, Great Britain and Switzerland and maintained regular collaboration with the Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt .

From 2004 to 2009 Klaus Froboese was a member of the jury of the Toti dal Monte singing competition in Treviso and the International Singing Competition in Passau.

From 2008 to 2010 he worked as a consultant in cultural matters for the city of Halle and from 2008 a member of the board of trustees of the Handel Foundation of the city of Halle.

In 2013, on behalf of the Florentine Fondazione Cesifin, he organized a highly acclaimed International Congress on the Financing and Organization of Opera Houses, which took place in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Klaus Froboese was a member of the Music Theater Academy Vienna and the Chambre professionnelle des Dirécteurs d'Opéra based in Paris.

Prizes and awards

In 1999 Klaus Froboese was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the Federal President Roman Herzog . The world premiere of the opera “Joke, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning” by Henze's student Detlev Glanert at the Halle Opera House received the Bavarian Theater Prize in 2001 (laudation: retired Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher). In 2006 Klaus Froboese was awarded the Handel Prize of the city of Halle .

Productions

Klaus Froboese staged over 90 operas. Mentioned are u. a. L'italiana in Algeri , La Cenerentola , Il barbiere di Siviglia , Falstaff , Don Pasquale , The Rake's Progress , Così fan tutte , Le nozze di Figaro , La Bohème , The prodigal son , Job , Orpheus in the underworld , Wozzeck , Serse , Rusalka , Il campiello , Andrea Chénier , Gianni Schicchi , L'elisir d'amore , Ariadne on Naxos , The Florentine Hat or Hansel and Gretel .

Web links

• City of Halle (Saale): Klaus Froboese
• Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: On the death of Klaus Froboese
• MDR Kultur: Former opera director Klaus Froboese has died