Peter Mussbach

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Peter Mussbach (born July 3, 1949 in Schwabach , Middle Franconia ) is a German director .

Life

Peter Mussbach studied singing , piano and conducting at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg and Munich as well as German , theater studies , art history , philosophy , law , sociology (diploma thesis "On the making of opera in Italy") and medicine (1984 doctorate "On the current state of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease «).

He practiced as a doctor in Munich at the University Hospital Großhadern of the LMU Internal Medicine. And then also psychiatry and neurology in the University Clinic for Psychiatry at LMU . In this context, research work on Ey Tracking Dysfunction (ETD) and schizophrenia .

1973 began his career as an opera and theater director with Cornelius' »The Barber of Baghdad« in Augsburg; he staged "Götterdämmerung" in Frankfurt , a Schönberg cycle in Hamburg , "Parsifal", "From a House of the Dead", "Stephen Climax" and "Les Troyens" in Brussels . In 1993 he directed Mozart's "Lucio Silla" at the Salzburg Festival , followed by "The Rake's Progress", "Lulu" (co-production Salzburg Festival and German State Opera Berlin ), "Doktor Faust" (co-production Salzburg Festival and Metropolitan Opera New York ) and Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk". He also created the sets for “Wozzeck”, “Lulu”, “Fidelio”, “Figaro”, “Don Giovanni” and various world premieres such as Manfred Trojahn's “Enrico”, “Was Ihr Wollt” and Wolfgang Rihm's “ The Conquest of Mexico ” . At the Staatstheater Stuttgart he created the production and equipment for »Séraphin«, » King Roger « and, most recently, Helmut Lachenmann's »Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern« in his own stage design. He worked as a film director in 1993 with "Cain is Cain" based on Edgar Varèses "Amériques" and in 1995 with television adaptations of "Wozzeck" and "Séraphin".

From 1997 to 2001 Peter Mussbach was full professor for directing and acting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and in 2001/2002 visiting professor for musical theater directing in Hamburg.

He wrote the libretto for Peter Ruzicka's opera "Celan" ( Semperoper Dresden 2001) . Peter Mussbach staged Strauss' »Arabella« at the Théâtre du Châtelet in a co-production with the Royal Opera House . In 2003 he was responsible for the world premiere of Dusapin's “Perelà, uomo di fumo” at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. At the Saito Kinen Festival Japan he staged »Wozzeck« by Alban Berg in the set design by Tadao Ando , in 2005 »Billy Budd« by Benjamin Britten at the Bavarian State Opera , »Salome« by Richard Strauss in his own stage design at the Saxon State Opera Dresden , Giuseppe Verdis » Simon Boccanegra "at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, 2006 in coproduction with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden ," Don Giovanni "at La Scala in Milan and most recently in 2010 Norma at Châtelet Paris and Neither von Feldmann at the Teatro de Zarzuela, Madrid – Opera de Hoi, 2015 Blood House by Georg Friedrich Haas for the Wiener Festwochen .

From 2002 to May 2008 Peter Mussbach was artistic director and artistic director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin . At the Lindenoper he has already staged Berg's “Lulu” in his own stage design (1997), Verdi's “Macbeth” (2000) and Schreker's “Der ferne Klang” (2001). Then Shostakovich's “Nos” (2002), Verdi's “La traviata” in coproduction with the Festival in Aix-en-Provence, Schönberg's “Moses und Aron” (2004), and the world premieres “Takemitsu - My Way of Life” (2004) by Toru Takemitsu, "Chief Joseph" by Hans Zender, "The Wall" as part of the world premiere of "Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence" in summer 2005, 2006 Pascal Dusapin's "Faustus, the Last Night" (a state opera co-production with the Opéra Lyon ) and the concert opera »Phaedra« by Hans Werner Henze, which was co-produced in 2007 by the State Opera with the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Bruxelles , the Wiener Festwochen , the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Berliner Festspiele as part of the musikfest berlin 07 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden premiered.

Curriculum vitae

music

  • 1960 - Beginning of piano lessons
  • 1964–68 - Nuremberg Conservatory with E. Appel (piano) and W. Domgraf-Fassbaender (voice), also basic training in harmony , counterpoint and instrumentation . Solo piano evenings.
  • 1968–72 - continued piano training with H. Kann (Vienna) and G. Karl (Munich)
  • 1971 - International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg , conducting class (C. Melles and Herbert v. Karajan ). Participation as a conductor in the final concert of the opera class.
  • 1984 - Participation in the conducting course of the Fricsay Society Berlin, conducted by G. Albrecht, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin , works by Brahms and Berg, soloist: W. Schneiderhahn.
  • 1987 - Conductor of a symphony concert with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, works: Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, Bach, Suite in B minor for flute and strings, Schubert, Symphony No. 5 in B flat major.

Education

  • 1968–70 - German studies, philosophy, art history, musicology in Erlangen and Vienna.
  • 1970–76 - Double degree in law and sociology in Munich. Graduated with a diploma in sociology, diploma thesis in the context of art sociology: "On the origin of opera in Italy at the end of the 15th century".
  • 1976–82 - Study of human medicine in Munich, license to practice medicine in 1982, doctorate in 1984 in the field of neurology "On the current status of the Creutzfeld-Jackob disease".

job

  • 1968–72 - Freelance employee of the cultural editorial offices of the television companies ORF (Vienna), SFB (Berlin) and BR (Munich), numerous films, features and portraits.
  • 1970–73 - Scientific assistant to the law faculty of the University of Erlangen / Munich as part of the project "Studies in the Media Network" of the Bavarian universities.
  • 1982–88 - Specialist training as a scientific assistant at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich, Psychiatric Clinic (H.Hippius). Research work on the “neuropathophysiology of schizophrenic psychosis”, publications and lectures at specialist congresses, most recently as a ward physician at the Munich University Neurological Clinic.

Direction and set design

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seiji Ozawa Profile , from http://www.saito-kinen.com , accessed on October 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mussbach, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabach