Kiel Opera House
The Kiel Opera House is a listed building in the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein and the venue of the Kiel Theater .
history
After an architectural competition announced in 1898, the Kiel magistrate commissioned the Berlin architect Heinrich Seeling in 1902 to build the city theater, a venue for drama and music theater . The brick building with richly structured sandstone and lavishly modeled roof zone lasted from 1905 to 1907. On October 1, 1907, the theater on what was then Neumarkt was inaugurated with the prelude to Parsifal , the prologue Der Kunst ein Haus and the performance of Fidelio .
During the Second World War , Allied air raids on December 13, 1943, May 22, 1944 and July 24, 1944 seriously destroyed the city theater. In the course of the destruction, the interior furnishings in Art Nouveau style were lost. The reconstruction - while retaining the surrounding walls - took place from 1950 to 1953 under the direction of Heinrich Hansen and Guido Widmann . The roof shapes were simplified and the cubic stage was redesigned. Werner Kallmorgen was responsible for the interior design . The reopening of the city theater took place on June 21, 1953 on the occasion of the Kiel Week, again with Fidelio . In the period after the destruction until it was reopened, the city theater resided in a venue at 103 Holtenauer Straße, where the theater is now located. In the opera house with around 840 seats there is now a stage with an area of 400 m 2 and extensive stage machinery for the music theater and the Ballet Kiel.
In 1972, the renovation of the staircase facing the Kleiner Kiel began. In the same year, the foundation stone for the construction of the company building on the corner of Rathausstrasse and Fleethörn was laid. The completely black glazed building based on a design by Werner Kallmorgen appears to have no recognizable reference to the architecture of the original ensemble. On March 16, 1993, the opera house was entered in the monument book as a cultural monument of special importance.
Ballet Kiel was directed by Mario Schröder as ballet director and chief choreographer from 2001 to 2010 , from 2011 Yaroslav Ivanenko and Heather Jurgensen took over the ballet direction. From 2003/04 to 2018/19 was Georg Fritzsch music director , since the season 2019/20 this post from Benjamin Reiners is vested, together with the General Director Daniel Karasek the Artistic Director holds the Kiel Opera. Roland Schneider has been Commercial Director (acting) of Theater Kiel since 2019. Opera director Reinhard Linden has been in office since January 2007, and chief dramaturge Cordula Engelbert since August 2008. Together with the soloist ensemble , the ballet ensemble , the opera and extra choir , as well as the Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel , they design the program for the season .
Artistic directors since 1963
- Since 2007 Daniel Karasek
- 2003-2005 Anette Berg
- 1995-2003 Kirsten Harms
- 1990–1995 Peter Dannenberg
- 1985–1990 Volkmar Clauss
- 1978–1985 Horst Fechner
- 1976-1977 Claus H. Henneberg
- 1963–1976 Joachim Klaiber
General music directors since 1948
- since 2019 Benjamin Reiners
- 2003–2019 Georg Fritzsch
- 1998–2003 Ulrich Windfuhr
- 1995–1998 Walter Gugerbauer
- 1987–1995 Klauspeter Seibel
- 1985–1987 Hans Zanotelli
- 1981–1985 Klaus Weise
- 1976–1981 Walter Gillessen
- 1972–1976 Klaus Tennstedt
- 1969–1972 Hans Zender
- 1966–1969 Gerhard Mandl
- 1963–1966 Peter Ronnefeld
- 1959–1963 Niklaus Aeschbacher
- 1950–1959 Georg C. Winkler
- 1948–1950 Paul Belker
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: War fates of German architecture. Volume I: North. Wachholtz, Neumünster o. J., p. 7f.
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of the State of Schleswig-Holstein: Directory of the registered cultural monuments of the State of Schleswig-Holstein (except Lübeck and except for archaeological monuments). (No longer available online.) In: schleswig-holstein.de. 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2014 ; Retrieved December 8, 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.
Web links
- Information about the current season accessed on October 20, 2008
- Society of Friends of Theater in Kiel e. V. accessed on September 8, 2012
- General Music Director Georg Fritzsch called on October 20, 2008
- Former General Music Director Ulrich Windfuhr called on October 20, 2008
- "Lucent Lines - dance on the facade" facade projection at the Kiel Opera by Greta Gröttrup in November 2009
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 23 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E