Michiel Dijkema
Michiel Dijkema is a Dutch opera director and set designer.
Live and act
Dijkema studied piano with Danièle Dechenne at the "JP Sweelinck" Academy of Music in Amsterdam and with Alexander Warenberg and Alwin Bär at the Utrecht University of the Arts . He then studied music theater directing at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin . He worked as a song accompanist and attended the song classes of Thom Bollen in Utrecht and Wolfram Rieger in Berlin . Michiel Dijkema directed university productions in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Berlin while still a student. For his diploma thesis (2003) Dijkema secured the rights to the German premiere of the large Viennese version of the operetta La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach .
Dijkema has been a director on European opera stages since 2005. His imaginative and tricky productions, for which he usually also designs the stage design, have already won several awards. He works regularly with the costume designer Claudia Damm on productions.
Dijkema lives in Amsterdam. He rode his bike from Amsterdam a. a. to Rome , Santiago de Compostela , Venice , Vienna , London , Barcelona and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer .
Productions
- 2005: Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy for the Nationale Reisopera Enschede
- 2006: Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck for the Nationale Reisopera Enschede
- 2006: Carmen by Georges Bizet for the State Theater Eisenach and State Theater Meiningen
- 2006: Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the ArtEZ University of the Arts
- 2006: Egmont by Ludwig van Beethoven for the Gergiev Festival Rotterdam
- 2006: La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini for the Estonian National Opera Tallinn and 2010 for the National Reisopera Enschede
- 2007: L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi for Drottningholms Slottsteater Stockholm
- 2007: Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg for the Gergiev Festival Rotterdam
- 2008: Cabaret by John Kander for the State Theater Mecklenburg
- 2008: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss for the State Theater Eisenach, 2009 for the Novaya Opera Moscow and 2010 for the Estonian National Opera Tallinn
- 2008: The Vampyr by Heinrich Marschner for the Amsterdam Canal Festival
- 2008: La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach for the Dresden State Operetta
- 2009: Il turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini for the Leipzig Opera
- 2009: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district
- 2010: Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck for the music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district
- 2011: Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini for the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden
- 2011: The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Jacques Offenbach for the Dresden State Operetta
- 2011: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini for the Leipzig Opera
- 2011: Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas for the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb
- 2012: L'Opera Seria by Florian Leopold Gassmann for the Hanover State Opera
- 2012: Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni for the Staatstheater Darmstadt
- 2012: Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo for the Staatstheater Darmstadt
- 2013: The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana for the Wiesbaden State Theater
- 2013: The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner for the Wiesbaden State Theater
- 2013: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach for the Kiel Theater
- 2014: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten for the Hanover State Opera
- 2014: Faust by Charles Gounod for the Leipzig Opera
Awards
- 2005: 2nd prize of the European Opera Directing Prize
- 2005: Young directors award, advertised by Peter Konwitschny for the conception of the opera Carmen at the Eisenach State Theater
- 2007: Eesti Teatrikunsti Muusikalavastuste Award for his production of La Cenerentola at the Estonian National Opera Tallinn
- 2011: Wizard Award for the stage design for the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden
Web links
- Michiel Dijkema's website
- Michiel Dijkema at Operabase (productions)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Under the cornucopia of fantasy. Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
- ^ List of EOP winners. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 11, 2015 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Premiere of the Bizet opera CARMEN. Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dijkema, Michiel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch opera director and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |