Sigrid T'Hooft

Sigrid T'Hooft (* before 1970 in Ghent , Belgium ) is a choreographer , opera and drama director and musicologist .

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After studying musicology, Sigrid T'Hooft worked as an editor for classical music at the Flemish radio station Klara. At the same time, she began to make a name for herself in the early 1990s as a choreographer and opera director for the Historically Informed Performance Practice.

She had her breakthrough as a director with the staging of Georg Friedrich Handel's Radamisto in 2009 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . In the following years T'Hooft was engaged at the Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt , the Schlosstheater Drottningholm , the Opera Theater Perm (Russia), the Trondelag -Theater Trondheim and other theaters.

She was also invited by the Parisian opera company Opera Fuoco and the Göttingen Handel Festival . She has worked regularly with the Budapest Festival Orchestra since 2011 and works with leading conductors in the field of early music such as Laurence Cummings , Reinhard Goebel , Peter Van Heyghen , Sigiswald Kuijken , Andrew Parrott , Mark Tatlow and many others.

For her baroque dance group Corpo Barocco she choreographed several dance performances and staged more than 25 operas as well as numerous “mise-en-geste” concerts.

In their repertoire one not only finds many rediscoveries of long-forgotten works from the 17th and 18th centuries, but also the common repertoire of Handel, Mozart and Joseph Haydn . More recently she has also realized works from the 19th century, such as by Alexander Borodin ( Prince Igor , St. Petersburg 1890) and a play by August von Kotzebue ( Armuth und Edelsinn , 1795).

Sigrid T'Hooft taught historically informed performance practice at the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe (baroque gestures and baroque dance) and at the music academies in Leipzig and The Hague , historical dance in Trossingen .

In 2019 she staged Riccardo Broschi's opera seria La Merope at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and choreographed the dance interludes for the opera L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi at the Vicenza Opera Festival (director: Iván Fischer ).

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