Nicola Raab
Nicola Raab (* 1972 in Regensburg , Bavaria ) is a German opera director . She directs European and North American stages.
Live and act
After studying theater and music science as well as psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , she initially worked as an assistant director at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , the Vienna State Opera , the Zurich Opera House , the Teatro La Fenice ( Venice ), at the Bregenz Festival , the Salzburg Festival and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence .
She made her US debut in 2007 with Béatrice et Bénédict at the Chicago Opera Theater. Her final international breakthrough came in 2010 with Thaïs at Göteborgs Operan. Since then she has directed musical theater at the leading opera houses in Seville , Valencia , Lisbon , Tallinn , Mexico City , Bratislava , Copenhagen , Helsinki , Moscow and Los Angeles . Raab likes to discover still unknown voices, but has also worked with Plácido Domingo , Nino Machaidze and Noah Stewart.
Productions
Staging in chronological order:
- 2000: The Soldier and the Dancer by Bohuslav Martinů at the Prague State Opera (co-director with David Pountney )
- 2002: The Kiss by Smetana at the Opera Theater Company Dublin
- 2002: The Bear by William Walton and A Waterbird Talk by Dominick Argento at the Vienna Chamber Opera
- 2003: Zora D by Isidora Žebeljan at the International Opera Centrum Nederland in Amsterdam, Vienna Chamber Opera and BEMUS Festival, Belgrade
- 2005: Moscow, Tscherjomuschki by Dmitri Schostakowitsch at the Vienna Chamber Opera
- 2006: L'oca del Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Stephen Oliver at the Vienna Chamber Opera
- 2007: Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci in Vienna
- 2007: When she died by Jonathan Dove and Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies at the Vienna Chamber Opera
- 2007: Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz at the Chicago Opera Theater
- 2008: Jokes, satire, irony and deeper meaning by Detlev Glanert for the Neue Oper Wien
- 2008: A Flowering Tree by John Adams at the Chicago Opera Theater
- 2008: MarathonFamily by Isidora Žebeljan for the Bregenz Festival , the New Opera Vienna and the BEMUS Festival, Belgrade
- 2009: Don Chisciotte by Francesco Conti in Vienna
- 2009: Owen Wingrave by Benjamin Britten at the Vienna Chamber Opera
- 2010: Thaïs by Jules Massenet at the Göteborg Opera
- 2010: The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini at the Regensburg Theater
- 2011: The Io Passion by Harrison Birtwistle at the Vienna Chamber Opera
- 2011: Parsifal by Richard Wagner at the Estonia National Opera in Tallinn
- 2011: The death and the maiden by Alfons Karl Zwicker at the Theater St. Gallen
- 2012: Thaïs from Massenet at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia
- 2012: La rondine by Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon
- 2012: Les Malheurs d'Orphée by Darius Milhaud and Mahagonny, a song play by Kurt Weill for UNAM Independent National University of Mexico in Mexico City
- 2012: Thaïs by Massenet at the Teatro de la Maestranza Seville
- 2013: Thaïs from Massenet at the Kansallisooppera Helsinki
- 2013: Tristan and Isolde von Wagner at the Novaya Opera Moscow
- 2013: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi at the Copenhagen Royal Opera
- 2013: Dorian Gray from Ľubica Čekovská at Slovenské Narodné Divadlo
- 2014: The cunning little fox by Leoš Janáček at the St. Gallen Theater
- 2014: Thaïs von Massenet at the Los Angeles Opera
- 2014: Life on the edge of the Milky Way by Bernhard Gander for the Bregenz Festival and Wien Modern
- 2015: A Flowering Tree by John Adams at Göteborg Opera
- 2015: Written on Skin by George Benjamin at the Theater St. Gallen
- 2015: Boris Godunow by Modest Mussorgsky at the Savonlinna Opera Festival
- 2016: Lohengrin by Richard Wagner at the Royal Copenhagen Opera
Web links
- Nicola Raab's website
- Representation of Nicola Raab at Sorek Artists Management
- Nicola Raab at Operabase (productions)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biography of Nicola Raab on musikwerkstatt-wien.com (PDF; 83 kB) Retrieved on September 5, 2011
- ↑ Biography of Nicola Raab on the homepage of the Estonia National Opera , accessed on January 28, 2015
- ↑ Nicola Raab, Director :: Schedule , accessed on January 28, 2015
- ↑ Nicola Raab ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on January 28, 2015
- ↑ Review on wienerzeitung.at Retrieved on September 5, 2011
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Raab, Nicola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |