Pamela Rosenberg

Pamela Rosenberg (* 1945 in Los Angeles ) is an American cultural manager and artistic director .

Life

Pamela Rosenberg was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Caracas . She studied at the University of California at Berkeley and Ohio State University. Rosenberg completed opera directing courses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and later received her stage management diploma from The London Opera Center. She received her practical training at the master classes with Wieland Wagner in Bayreuth .

From 1980 to 1987 Rosenberg worked for Michael Gielen and was a director at the Frankfurt Opera . In 1987 she went to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg as operations director , where she worked with Peter Zadek . From 1988 to 1990 Rosenberg worked as Manager of Artistic Affairs at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. From 1991 to 2000 she was co-director of Klaus Zehelein at the Stuttgart State Opera .

From 2001 to 2006 she was General Director of the San Francisco Opera .

Pamela Rosenberg was the artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2006 to 2010 . She then worked as dean at the American Academy in Berlin until 2014 and has been associated with the institute in an advisory capacity ever since.

Rosenberg was Deputy Chairwoman of the Senate of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences from 2010 to 2018 . She is a member of the supervisory board of the Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin and a member of the board of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation and the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. She was a member of the University Council of the University of Music at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Supervisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University and sits on the jury of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award.

From 2007 to 2018, Rosenberg was CEO of the music kindergarten in Berlin founded by Daniel Barenboim. In 2016 she initiated MitMachMusik — a way to integrate refugee children , a program in which professional musicians now give instrumental lessons to 300 children at 15 locations in Berlin and Potsdam.

Pamela Rosenberg was married to the music critic Wolf Rosenberg and has two grown sons with him. She lives in Berlin.

literature

• Jan Brachmann: erotic art - music of society. How and what does Pamela Rosenberg imagine as the future director of the Berliner Philharmoniker? In: Berliner Zeitung , August 27, 2005

Web links

• American Academy press release dated June 22, 2010