Lukas Beikircher

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Lukas Beikircher (* 1970 in Bruneck ) is a German - Italian conductor .

Lukas Beikircher is the nephew of the cabaret artist Konrad Beikircher . He grew up in Zorneding and attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . After graduating from school, Beikircher studied piano and composition in Munich and then studied conducting in Dresden .

After his first engagement as a répétiteur at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , he was Principal Conductor of the Stichting Internationale Operaproducties in Holland, where he directed the production of Ariadne auf Naxos , Nabucco , Rigoletto and Carmen . Afterwards he was engaged as the first coordinated Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt . In the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, Lukas Beikircher took over the position of acting chief conductor at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz .

Since the 2013/14 season he has been Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . There he took over the musical direction of the operas Don Giovanni , La traviata and Death in Venice (Britten). He also directed the world premieres of several children's operas. In the 2015/16 season he was responsible for his first own production as a conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, a new production of the Strauss opera Arabella . Beikircher's conducting was received with opposition from the audience. In the 2015/16 season he also conducted Rigoletto , Un ballo in maschera , The Flying Dutchman , Hansel and Gretel , Der Zwerg (Zemlinsky) and Werther . In the 2016/17 season Beikircher conducted the new production of the Lehár operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg ; he was in charge of the podium “safely”, ensured in his first operetta production for “speedy music-making, albeit not free from wobbles, and rather coarse-grained”, but was “noticeably concerned with subtlety”. In June 2017 he led the Duisburg premiere of Don Carlo and brought the soloists and the Duisburg Philharmonic to an "excellently voiced legato culture."

For the 2019/20 season, Beikircher will be chief conductor of the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck .

Beikircher also emerged as a concert conductor. He gave with various orchestras concerts in the Netherlands ( Rotterdam , The Hague ), the Berlin Philharmonic (with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava), the Laeiszhalle Hamburg (also with the RSO Bratislava), the Munich Philharmonic and the Munich Hercules Hall , each with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic.

Beikircher is the father of a daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Culture - The standing room as a school. Abendzeitung München Verlags-GmbH, January 13, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2017 (interview with Lukas Beikircher).
  2. ↑ a b Max Kirschner: RHEINOPER: Lukas Beikircher: He already has a well-known name . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 16, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Lukas Beikircher . Vita at Opera Weetjes (left to right). Retrieved October 11, 2017
  4. ↑ Profile Lukas Beikircher. Deutsche Oper am Rhein, accessed on October 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The Waldner family's struggle for survival . Performance review. Online music magazine. Retrieved October 11, 2017
  6. ^ Düsseldorf: bitter luck . Performance review. On rp-online.de from September 21, 2015. Accessed October 11, 2017
  7. ^ Operetta "Der Graf von Luxemburg" at Rhine Opera with too many lengths . Performance review. Music today. de of December 4, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2017
  8. ^ Düsseldorf: The Count of Luxembourg files for personal bankruptcy . Performance review. On rp-online.de from December 5, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2017
  9. ↑ OPERETTES REVIEW: GERMAN OPERA AM RHEIN DÜSSELDORF - THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG: Salon comedy in a roller coaster . Performance review. concerti.de from December 3, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2017
  10. ^ GERMAN OPERA AM RHEIN: Monks pulling the strings on the Duisburg stage . Performance review. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 11, 2017. Accessed October 11, 2017
  11. ^ Duisburg: In the golden surveillance state . Performance review. On rp-online.de from June 12, 2017. Accessed October 11, 2017
  12. ↑ Profile Lukas Beikircher. Deutsche Oper am Rhein, accessed on October 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Beikircher, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruneck , South Tyrol