Reinhard Traub
Reinhard Traub is a lighting designer who works on major opera houses .
Life
Reinhard Traub completed training as a graphic designer and as a professional pilot .
Create
From 1980 to 1985 he was an assistant to Chenault Spence and then worked as a lighting designer on two world tours: Duke Ellingtons Sophisticated Ladies and Hammersteins / Bizet's Carmen Jones . He has been working at the Graz Opera since the 1992/93 season , and since the 2006/07 season he has been head of the lighting department at the Stuttgart State Theater .
Traub worked as a lighting designer at the opera houses in Zurich , London , Paris , Brussels , Amsterdam , Barcelona , Berlin and Hamburg , at the Burgtheater and at the Salzburg Festival , at the Theater an der Wien and at the Glyndebourne Festival , at the Hamburg Thalia Theater and at the Volksbühne Berlin . Traub has been working together for many years with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he took on the lighting design for eight productions: Don Giovanni , Macbeth , Il turco in Italia , Roberto Devereux with Gruberová , Fidelio , Rusalka , Saul , and La forza del destino .
Reinhard Traub has also worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Montreal. The directors with whom he mainly works include David Alden , Calixto Bieito , Peter Konwitschny , Johann Kresnik , Stephen Lawless , GH Seebach and Daniel Slater as well as the choreographers Christian Spuck and Reinhild Hoffmann . The cooperation with Martin Kušej was particularly profitable for his Salzburg drama productions of König Ottokars Glück and Ende (2005) and Höllenangst (2006) Traub was responsible for the lighting design. Traub also worked intensively with Kušej in opera - 1998 Al gran sole carico d'amore (Stuttgart), 2003 La clemenza di Tito and 2006 Don Giovanni (both in Salzburg ), 2006 Carmen (Berlin), 2009 Lady Macbeth from Mzensk ( Paris, Madrid), 2010 The Flying Dutchman (Amsterdam).
In 2016 it was announced that Traub would be responsible for the lighting design for the Aida at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 . Another important order was the lighting design for the Lohengrin opera at the 2018 Bayreuth Festival .
Since autumn 2001, Traub has been teaching at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .
Works (selection)
- 2002 Die Liebe der Danae - Director: Günter Krämer , Salzburg Festival
- 2009 Don Giovanni - Director: Stephan Kimmig , Bavarian State Opera , Munich
- 2009 Lulu - directed by Christof Loy , Royal Opera House , London and Teatro Real , Madrid
- 2009 Rigoletto - directed by Mariame Clément , Nancy and Caen
- 2010 Nabucco - R: E Linton, Copenhagen Royal Opera House
- 2013 La Forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, Bavarian State Opera Munich, musical direction: Asher Fisch, director: Martin Kušej
- 2019: Carmen , by Georges Bizet , Nationaltheater Mannheim
- 2020: Norma , by Vincenzo Bellini , Hamburg State Opera
documentary
- The Singing City (D 2011), directed by Vadim Jendreyko
Web links
- Reinhard Traub at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Reinhard Traub in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Stuttgart Opera , productions by Reinhard Traub
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Huth: Bayreuth Festival: Triumph of Doubt. In: www.welt.de. July 26, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
- ^ The German stage. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ NORMA - great singers, questionable production. In: opera figures. March 9, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Traub, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lighting designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |