Manfred Voss (lighting designer opera)
Manfred Voss (born before 1963) is a German lighting designer who works on major opera houses .
life and work
Voss is a student of Paul Eberhardt . His career began in 1963 at the Bremen Theater , while Kurt Hübner was artistic director . He made his breakthrough as a lighting designer in 1976 when he designed the light in Patrice Chéreau's Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival .
From 1976 to 2003, Voss was responsible for the lighting design for all new productions in Bayreuth. Heiner Müller , director of the 1993 festival production of Tristan and Isolde , simply called him: "King of Light". Voss designed the light for a total of nine Ring cycles, including the Bayreuth productions by Harry Kupfer (1991), Alfred Kirchner (1997) and Jürgen Flimm (2000).
From 1990 to 1995 Voss also worked at the Hamburg State Opera , from 1995 to 2003 he was artistic director of lighting at the stages of the city of Cologne . Guest engagements have taken him to Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Vienna, Athens, Rome, Catania, Paris, Barcelona, Bilbao, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Montpellier, Venice, San Francisco, Bologna, Florence, Copenhagen and to the Salzburg Festival . He shone in 2004 King Arthur , 2005 mitridate , 2006 Lucio Silla and 2010, the Lulu of Alban Berg from.
Voss worked and works with well-known directors, including Ruth Berghaus , Robert Carsen , Willy Decker , Giancarlo del Monaco , Achim Freyer , Andreas Homoki , Peter Konwitschny , Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , Guy Joosten and Johannes Schaaf .
Other important opera productions
- 2001: Nabucco - Vienna State Opera , conductor: Fabio Luisi , director: Günter Krämer (together with Petra Buchholz also set design)
- 2004: Falstaff - Bavarian State Opera , Munich, conductor: Zubin Mehta , director: Eike Gramss
- 2006: Lucio Silla - Theater an der Wien , conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt , director: Claus Guth
- 2008: Ariadne auf Naxos - Bavarian State Opera , Munich, conductor: Kent Nagano , director: Robert Carsen
- 2008: La clemenza di Tito - Oslo Opera , conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini , director: Peter Konwitschny
- 2009: Macbeth - Vienna State Opera , conductor: Guillermo García Calvo , director: Vera Nemirova
- 2013: Lucrezia Borgia - Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , Bruxelles, conductor: Julian Reynolds , director: Guy Joosten
- 2013: Attila - Theater an der Wien , conductor: Riccardo Frizza , director: Peter Konwitschny
- 2014: Jenůfa - Theater Augsburg , conductor: Dirk Kaftan , director: Peter Konwitschny
- 2015: Elektra - Teatro Comunale Bologna , conductor: Lothar Zagrosek , director: Guy Joosten
- 2017: Nabucco - Vienna State Opera , director: Günter Krämer
Award
- 2003: German stage prize Opus
Web links
- Manfred Voss at Operabase (engagements and dates)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Valhalla Needs a God of Light , Die Welt , July 21, 2003
- ↑ Manfred Voss, lighting designer , Citizens Broadcasting on 92.5 MHz, November 3, 2007
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Voss, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lighting designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1963 |