Roland Schwab (director)

Roland Schwab (born December 13, 1969 in Saint-Cloud ) is a German music theater director.

Life

Roland Schwab grew up in Munich. Since 1992 he has been studying music theater directing in Hamburg under Götz Friedrich . During his studies, assistants took him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Zurich Opera House. He worked u. a. together with Götz Friedrich, Harry Kupfer and Ruth Berghaus . In 1996 he graduated with Le Roi Berenger of Henry Suter champion from the Forum Hamburg. From 1998 to 2002 he was assistant director at the Meininger Theater , where he has been senior director since 2002. His productions of Cosi fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro were created at the Meininger Theater . Since 2003 he has been a freelance director at, among others, the Münster theaters ( Pariser Leben ), the Freiburg Theater ( Lucia di Lammermoor ), the Niederbayerisches Landestheater ( Orlando furioso ), the Biel Solothurn Theater ( Orlando ), the Musiktheater im Revier , Gelsenkirchen ( Aida ), the Tiroler Landestheater , Innsbruck ( Romeo et Juliette ), the Landestheater Linz ( Manon ), the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau ( A Masked Ball ), the Dortmund Opera ( The Rake's Progress ), the Bonn Opera ( La Sonnambula ). An important collaboration connects him with the music theater dramaturge Christian Baier , with whom he developed the Mozart Fragments project at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the Mozart Year 2006 . The productions Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert and Don Giovanni (2010) were also produced at the Deutsche Oper .

Productions

• 1996: Le Roi Berenger by Heinrich Sutermeister, Forum Hamburg
• 1997: Frank Alert meets Brecht , Berliner Ensemble
• 1997: The lighthouse by Peter Maxwell-Davies, Theater Meißen
• 1999: The Two Blinds by Jacques Offenbach, Meininger Theater
• 2001: Così fan tutte by WA Mozart, Meininger Theater
• 2002: The wedding of Figaro by WA Mozart, Meininger Theater
• 2003: Kiss me, Kate by Cole Porter, Meininger Theater
• 2003: The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, Südostbayerisches Städtetheater
• 2003: My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe, Theater Freiburg
• 2004: Angelique by Jacques Ibert / The Breasts of Tiresias by Francis Poulenc, Südostbayerisches Städtetheater
• 2004: Parisian life by Jacques Offenbach, Städtische Bühnen Münster
• 2005: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Südostbayerisches Städtetheater
• 2005: Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti, Freiburg Theater
• 2006: Fragments by WA Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin
• 2007: Orlando furioso by Antonio Vivaldi, Südostbayerisches Städtetheater
• 2007: Orlando by Georg Friedrich Händel, Theater Biel Solothurn
• 2007: Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert, Deutsche Oper Berlin
• 2008: The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky, Oper Dortmund
• 2008: Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
• 2008: Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, Musiktheater im Revier
• 2009: Manon by Jules Massenet, Landestheater Linz
• 2010: The Prisoner by Luigi Dallapiccola / Carlo Gesualdo, Niederbayerisches Landestheater
• 2010: A masked ball by Giuseppe Verdi, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau
• 2010: Don Giovanni by WA Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin
• 2011: Tsar and Zimmermann by Albert Lortzing, music theater in the Revier
• 2011: La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini, Oper Bonn
• 2011: Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino, Niederbayerisches Landestheater
• 2015: The gardener out of love by WA Mozart, Theater Augsburg
• 2015: Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito , State Opera Munich

Nominations

• 2006: "WA Mozart: Fragments" (Deutsche Oper Berlin) - nomination of the magazine "Deutsche Bühne" for "Best Director"
• 2007: Nomination of the magazine "Opernwelt" for "Best Young Director"
• 2008: "I. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress "(Theater Dortmund) - Critics' survey by the magazine" Theater pur "in NRW: 3rd prize in NRW 2008

Web links

• Roland Schwab Official Website
• Roland Schwab at Operabase (productions)