Marco Arturo Marelli
Marco Arturo Marelli (born August 21, 1949 in Zurich ) is a Swiss set designer and opera director .
Life
Marelli trained as a graphic designer at the Zurich School of Applied Arts . He then assisted several set designers at the Volks - und Staatsoper in Vienna, for example with Günther Schneider-Siemssen . August Everding hired him from 1973 as assistant to Toni Businger at the Hamburg State Opera . Marelli worked there as an outfitter for the ballet director John Neumeier for choreographies on compositions by Giacomo Meyerbeer , Robert Schumann , Franz Schubert , Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss .
Since 1974 Marelli has been a guest at the Städtische Bühnen Hagen and the Theater Darmstadt. He worked for the directors Alfred Kirchner and Harry Kupfer at the Frankfurt Opera . During this time he also designed equipment for the Komische Oper Berlin and the Theater am Goetheplatz Bremen .
Since 1984/85 he worked mostly as a director and set designer in personal union and was also engaged as a senior stage director at the National Theater Mannheim .
Together with his wife, the costume designer Dagmar Niefind , he worked at the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Hamburg State Opera , the Opéra National and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, at the Houston Grand Opera in Texas, at the Covent Garden Opera in London, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, also in Strasbourg, at the National Opera in Tokyo and in Trieste .
Marelli was awarded the Danish Reumert Theater Prize in 2009. Since 2010 he has been an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera .
Productions
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See also
literature
- Christoph Albrecht (Ed.): Marco Arturo Marelli - I hear the room. Works for the opera of the director and set designer. Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-89487-666-1 .
Web links
- Marco Arturo Marelli Website of the artist
- Nina Debrunner: Marco Arturo Marelli . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 5, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1173 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nina Debrunner: Marco Arturo Marelli . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 5, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1173 f.
- ↑ Årets Reumert 2009 at: datagraf.dk , accessed on January 1, 2016.
- ↑ A fiery plea for literary opera. from: nzz.ch , March 3, 2010, accessed on January 1, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marelli, Marco Arturo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss stage designer and opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |