Michael Sturminger
Michael Sturminger (born January 8, 1963 in Vienna ) is a freelance Austrian director and author .
life and work
Since studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , Sturminger has directed and written for musical theater, drama and film. Since 2014 he has been director of the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games .
Important productions were created at the Theater an der Wien , the Bregenz Festival , the Vienna State Opera , the Zurich Opera House , the Taipei National Theater and the Salzburg Festival . Artistic encounters connect him u. a. with Valery Gergiev , Ulrich Seidl , Florian Flicker , Cecilia Bartoli as well as with the production and costume designers Renate Martin and Andreas Donhauser .
In collaboration with Martin Haselböck and John Malkovich , the musical theater productions The Infernal Comedy and The Giacomo Variations , which were shown in more than 150 performances from Tbilisi to Santiago de Chile , as well as the feature film The Casanova Variations , which was presented at the 2014 International Film Festival of San Sebastian was premiered.
Filmography
- 2002: On the Situation - Austria in Six Chapters - Director / Screenplay
- 2004: Son of a bitch - director / screenplay
- 2008: Cecilia Bartoli: The Barcelona Concert
- 2008: Malibran Rediscovered: The Romantic Revolution
- 2013: Casanova Variations
- 2018: Tolouse
Productions (selection)
- 1991: Help, Help the Globolinks , opera for children by Giancarlo Menotti , Zurich Opera House. Production: Michael Sturminger.
- 1994: A fool's paradise , opera for children by Ofer Ben-Amots, Zurich Opera House in coproduction with the Wien Modern Festival, world premiere.
- 1995: The Devils of Loudun , opera by Krzysztof Penderecki after Aldous Huxley , Viennese opera theater in the Theater auf dem Steinhof.
- 1996: The Abduction from the Seraglio , Singspiel by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
- 1997: The little chimney sweep , children's opera by Benjamin Britten , at the Vienna Chamber Opera.
- 1998: Le Grand Macabre , opera by György Ligeti at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck.
- 1999: Waiting for Godot , play by Samuel Beckett at the Donaufestival in Krems.
- 2000: Leonora , opera by Ferdinando Paer. Production by the Zurich Opera House in Winterthur.
- 2001: Werther , opera by Jules Massenet at the Cologne Opera.
- 2001: May 35 , opera for children by Violetta Dinescu at the Vienna State Opera.
- 2002: Wiener Blut , operetta by Johann Strauss. Production by the Zurich Opera House in Winterthur.
- 2003: What You Want , play by William Shakespeare. Production of the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games.
- 2004: One night in Venice , operetta by Johann Strauss. Production by the Vienna Volksoper.
- 2005: Der Herr Nordwind , opera by HK Gruber. Libretto: HC Artmann. World premiere at the Zurich Opera House.
- 2006: Il sogno di Scipione , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Coproduction of the Salzburg Festival with the Klagenfurt City Theater.
- 2007: Orfeo ed Euridice , opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck . Production at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
- 2008: The Infernal Comedy (Seduction and Despair), music theater by Michael Sturminger (text) and Martin Haselböck (conception).
- 2009: Idomeneo , Opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New production at the Mariinsky
- 2010: Die Csárdásfürstin , operetta by Emmerich Kálmán .
- 2011: Ariadne auf Naxos , new production at the Mariinsky Theater St.Petersburg.
- 2012: Eugen Onegin , opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , production at the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen.
- 2014: Ariadne auf Naxos , opera by Richard Strauss . Production at the National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan.
- 2015: Stories from the Vienna Woods , piece of music by HK Gruber, new setting after Ödön von Horváth . Production at the Theater an der Wien.
- 2016: The God of Carnage , play by Yasmina Reza . Production at the city theater
- 2017: Everyone from Hugo von Hofmannsthal at the Salzburg Festival
- 2018: Tosca , opera by Giacomo Puccini at the Salzburg Easter Festival
Awards
- Son of a bitch : Prize at the German film festival Max Ophüls Prize
- Romy , as Best Book Film for "Casanova Variations"
- La Sonnambula , Theater am Gärtnerplatz, 43rd Munich AZ stars
Web links
- Michael Sturminger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Sturminger at filmportal.de
- Homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sturminger, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |