Michael Fichtenholz

Michael Borisowitsch Fichtenholz ( Russian Михаил Борисович Фихтенгольц ; * 1978 in Moscow ) is a Russian musicologist and opera director .

Career

Spruce wood studied musicology. During his studies he worked as a music critic and journalist in the magazines Kommersant , Iswestija , Vedomosti , Afisha and TimeOut Moscow etc.

From 2002 to 2006 he was the program director of the Moscow Easter Festival founded by Valery Gergiev . From 2007 to 2009 and 2013 to 2014 he was program director of the Russian National Orchestra and worked with the conductors Paul Daniel , Sir Mark Elder , Paavo Järvi , Wladimir Michailowitsch Jurowski , Ingo Metzmacher , Christoph-Matthias Müller , Michail Pletnjow and Patrick Summers .

In 2009 Fichtenholz became head of program scheduling and, in October, director of the newly established opera studio at the Bolshoi Theater . He has hired directors such as Richard Jones , Stephen Lawless , Antony McDonald and Adrian Noble . During his time, works by Mozart , Bellini , Janáček , Strauss and Ravel that were unusual for the Russian repertoire were heard there. Fichtenholz brought internationally active artists to Moscow and initiated co-productions with important western opera houses in London ( English National Opera ), Brussels ( La Monnaie ) and Paris ( Opéra National de Paris ).

From 2014 to 2018 he was the opera director (and artistic director of the Handel Festival) in Karlsruhe and moved to the same position at the Zurich Opera House in 2018 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diploma thesis: Georg Friedrich Handel's magic operas and their Venetian background.