Olivier Tambosi

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Olivier Tambosi (born July 7, 1963 in Paris ) is an Austrian opera and operetta director .

Career

Tambosi studied philosophy and theology at the University of Vienna and music theater directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts .

In 1989 he founded the Neue Oper Wien (artistic director until 1993). Then he was senior director for music theater at the Klagenfurt City Theater until 1996 . Since 1996 he has made international guest appearances as a director. a. with conductors Philippe Auguin , John Axelrod , Bruno Bartoletti , Jiří Bělohlávek , Dietfried Bernet , Daniele Callegari , Paolo Carignani , Frédéric Chaslin , James Conlon , Dennis Russell Davies , Mark Elder , Mikko Franck , Bernard Haitink , Jakub Hrůša , Wladimir Jurowski , Karen Jurowski Kamensek , Peter Keuschnig , Axel Kober , Walter Kobéra , Nicola Luisotti , Jun Märkl , Seiji Ozawa , Antonio Pappano , Donald Runnicles , Peter Schneider , Patrick Summers , Alexander Soddy .

Among the singers Tambosi has worked with are: a. Marcelo Álvarez , Daniela Barcellona , Joseph Calleja , Barbara Frittoli , Ferruccio Furlanetto , Lucio Gallo , Vladimir Galouzin , Eric Halfvarsson , Dimitri Hvorostovsky , Angelika Kirchschlager , Éva Marton , Karita Mattila , Deborah Polaski , Neil Shicoff , Anja Silja , Nina Stemme , Bryn Terfel , Ramón Vargas , Christopher Ventris , Linda Watson and Eva-Maria Westbroek .

His engagements led him in Austria a. a. to the Oper Graz , the Landestheater Linz , the Vienna Volksoper and the Bregenz Festival , in Germany to the State Opera Hanover , the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, in Europe to the Teatro Liceu Barcelona, ​​the Royal Opera House Covent Garden , National Opera Helsinki, the Strasbourg Opera and the Lucerne Festival , the Biel Solothurn Theater, in America to the Metropolitan Opera New York, to Chicago, Houston, San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles, San Diego Opera as well as to the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan.

Tambosi is married to the Swiss soprano Christiane Boesiger (* 1966 in Zurich).

Productions (selection)

Henry Purcell

Georg Philipp Telemann

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Joseph Haydn

Antonio Salieri

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Luigi Cherubini

Gaetano Donizetti

Richard Wagner

Giuseppe Verdi

Jacques Offenbach

Johann Strauss

Georges Bizet

Franco Faccio

Carl Millöcker

Engelbert Humperdinck

Oscar Wilde

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Giacomo Puccini

Pietro Mascagni

Leoš Janáček

Claude Debussy

Richard Strauss

Franz Lehár

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schönberg , Kurt Weill

  • Cabaret songs

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Franz Schreker

Alban Berg

Emmerich Kálmán

Eduard Künneke

Igor Stravinsky

Darius Milhaud

Francis Poulenc

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Gian Carlo Menotti

Benjamin Britten

Astor Piazzolla

Leigh / Wasserman

Stephen Sondheim

Dieter Kaufmann

  • The journey to paradise
  • Dolores

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Bruno Strobl

Kaija Saariaho

Zesses Seglias

Sehyung Kim

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