Nikolaus Sulzberger

Nikolaus Peter Sulzberger (born December 19, 1938 in Zwickau ; † July 4, 2014 in Tyrol , Austria ) was a German opera director .

Life

Sulzberger first learned his directing trade at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as assistant to the general manager and chief director Gustav Rudolf Sellner . In Berlin he worked for many years as an evening game director.

He achieved his first successes as a director at the Staatstheater Kassel , where he worked for the first time on Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann and Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz with the designer Günter Walbeck , whom he particularly valued .

At the Berlin house he worked on Cavalleria rusticana in 1972 under the musical direction of Giuseppe Patanè , and also tried an experiment with Valentino Fioravanti's opera buffa Le cantatrici villane . He was then entrusted with the production of Richard Strauss Arabella with Gundula Janowitz in the title role.

As chief director of the opera, he moved to the Essen Opera House , where he worked on numerous productions with various stage designers and conductors, including the GMD Heinz Wallberg and Matthias Aeschbacher and often with the soloists Anita Salta and Wicus Slabbert . In 1978 Sulzberger returned to Berlin and there staged Peter Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame (conductor: Gerd Albrecht ).

Sulzberger was married to the soprano Gundula Janowitz and had lived in the vicinity of St. Pölten , Lower Austria , since 1992 .

literature

• Herbert Hauck : Theater in Essen 1974–1978. A documentation . Photo review of the 1974–1978 seasons. Wuppertal 1978.
• JD Waidelich: Essen plays theater , Bd. 2, Düsseldorf: Econ. 1994. ISBN 3-430-19454-7
• Theater Museum Düsseldorf : Günter Walbeck, BühnenBildTheater: Exhibition for the 70th birthday . (= Documents on theater history, vol. 16) Düsseldorf 2009.