Stefan Herheim
Stefan Herheim (born March 13, 1970 in Oslo , Norway ) is a Norwegian opera director who works on numerous stages in German-speaking countries, in Scandinavia , the Benelux and the Baltic states .
Life
Herheim trained as a cellist . He later gained directing experience at his own puppet theater before studying opera directing in Hamburg with Götz Friedrich from 1994 to 1999 . His thesis there was a production of the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
Herheim received the Götz Friedrich Prize for his production of I puritani at the Aalto Theater in Essen in 2002 . In the years that followed, he attracted attention through a series of controversially discussed works: at the Salzburg Festival with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio (2003), with Julius Caesar by Georg Friedrich Handel at Den Norske Opera in Oslo and La forza del destino in Berlin (2005 ), with Wagner's Rheingold at the Latvian National Opera in Riga (2006), a Don Giovanni in Essen (2007) and finally the celebrated production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival (2008).
In 2009 he directed Lohengrin at the Berlin State Opera . In 2010 he was the main director at the Semperoper in Dresden. In 2011 he produced Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam ; the conductor was Mariss Jansons .
In 2015 he staged another time at the Bregenz Festival , this time the Jacques Offenbach opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann .
Opernwelt magazine voted him Director of the Year three times . In 2007 for Don Giovanni in Essen, for his direction of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008 and in 2010 for his Rosenkavalier production at the Stuttgart State Opera .
From 2020, Herheim will stage Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
In December 2017, Herheim was appointed artistic director of the Theater an der Wien for an initial period of five years and will take over the management of this music theater belonging to the United Bühnen Wien from the 2022/23 season.
Productions
| Opera | place | premiere | Furnishing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Flute | Oldenburg State Theater | 1999 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| So fan tutte | Tartu (Estonia), Vanemuine Theater | 2000 | B: Stefan Herheim, K: Pille Jänes |
| About women - across borders | Munich Biennale for New Music Theater | 2000 | B: Stefan Herheim, K: Irene Favre de Lucascaz |
| Falstaff | Oldenburg State Theater | 2000 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| Tannhauser | State Theater Linz | 2001 | B + K: Kathrin Susan Brose |
| Marlowe - The Jew from Malta | Munich Biennale for New Music Theater | 2002 | B + K: Jan A. Schroeder |
| So fan tutte | Folkoperan Stockholm | 2002 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| I Puritani | Essen, Aalto Theater | 2002 | B: Dieter Richter, K: Renate Schmitzer |
| The abduction from the Seraglio | Salzburg Festival | 2003 | B + K: Gottfried Pilz |
| Don Carlos | State Theater Linz | 2003 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| Madame Butterfly | Volksoper Vienna | 2004 | B + K: Kathrin-Susann Brose |
| Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Den Norske Opera , Oslo | 2005 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| La Forza del Destino | State Opera Unter den Linden , Berlin | 2005 | B + K: Thomas Schuster |
| the Rheingold | Latvian National Opera , Riga / Coproduction with the Bergen Festival | 2006 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| Carmen | Graz Opera House | 2006 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| Don Giovanni | Aalto Theater , Essen | 2007 | B + K: Thomas Schuster |
| Parsifal | Bayreuth Festival | 2008 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Rusalka | Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , Brussels | 2008 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Lohengrin | State Opera Unter den Linden , Berlin | 2009 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| The Rosenkavalier | Stuttgart, State Opera | 2009 | B: Rebecca Ringst, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Rusalka | Graz Opera (from Brussels) | 2009 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Tannhauser | Den Norske Opera , Oslo | 2010 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| Lulu | Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Theater | 2010 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Rusalka | Dresden, Semperoper (from Brussels) | 2010 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Lulu | Oslo, Den Norske Opera (from Copenhagen) | 2011 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Salome | Salzburg, Easter Festival | 2011 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Eugene Onegin | Amsterdam, De Nederlandse Opera | 2011 | B: Philipp Fürhofer, K: Gesine Völlm |
| La bohème | Oslo, Den Norske Opera | 2012 | B + K: Heike Scheele |
| Lulu | Semperoper , Dresden (from Copenhagen) | 2012 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Xerxes | Komische Oper Berlin | 2012 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Manon Lescaut | Graz Opera House | 2012 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Xerxes | Düsseldorf, Deutsche Oper am Rhein (from Berlin) | 2013 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Manon Lescaut | Dresden, Semperoper (from Graz) | 2012 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Salome | Den Norske Opera, Oslo (from Salzburg) | 2013 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| The Mastersingers of Nuremberg | Salzburg Festival | 2013 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Rusalka | Gran Teatre del Liceu , Barcelona (from Brussels) | 2013 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Les Vêpres siciliennes | Royal Opera House , London | 2013 | B: Philipp Fürhofer, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Rusalka | Opéra de Lyon (from Brussels) | 2014 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Les Vêpres siciliennes | Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater (from London) | 2014 | B: Philipp Fürhofer, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Xerxes | Graz, Opera (from Berlin) | 2014 | B: Heike Scheele, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Les contes d'Hoffmann | Bregenz Festival | 2015 | B: Christof Hetzer , K: Esther Bialas |
| Le nozze di Figaro | Hamburg State Opera | 2015 | B: Christof Hetzer, K: Gesine Völlm |
| Queen of Spades | De Nationale Opera Amsterdam | 2016 | B + K: Philipp Fürhofer |
| La Cenerentola | Oslo, Den Norske Opera | 2017 | B: Daniel Unger + Stefan Herheim, K: Esther Bialas |
| Wozzeck | German Opera on the Rhine, Düsseldorf | 2017 | B + K: Christof Hetzer |
| Bluebeard | Komische Oper, Berlin | 2018 | B: Christof Hetzer, K: Esther Bialas |
| Pelléas and Mélisande | Glyndebourne Festival | 2018 | B + K: Philipp Fürhofer |
Award
- 2013: International Opera Award (nomination)
literature
- Antonia Goldhammer: Do you know what you saw? Stefan Herheim's Bayreuth Parsifal . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-07058-5 .
- slightly changed new edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-040257-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Herheim in the catalog of the German National Library
- current dates on Operabase
- Sensual deconstruction. Stefan Herheim in the "Opernwelt" interview 2008
- Stefan Herheim's Production of Parsifal in Bayreuth
- Interview with Stefan Herheim about the work on Richard Strauss' "Salome" at the Salzburg Easter Festival 2011
- Bayreuth Festival - Contributors - Stefan Herheim
- Komische Oper Berlin - Artist - Director - Stefan Herheim
- Intermezzo blog about Stefan Herheim
- Herheims Bregenz Hoffmann 2015 [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cultural radio
- ↑ https://derstandard.at/2000070815246/Stefan-Herheim-uebernnahm-2022-das-Theater-an-der-Wien
- ↑ https://www.theater-wien.at/de/ueber-uns/aktuelles/429/Stefan-Herheim-uebernehmen-ab-202223-die-Intendanz-des-Theater-an-der-Wien--Roland- Geyer-stays-until-the-season-202122
- ↑ Death and the girl who dies twice in: FAZ of January 27, 2012, page 36
- ↑ New act with old slut in: FAZ from February 7, 2012, page 29
- ^ Three times about the Bildungsbürgerecke in FAZ from November 1, 2013, page 36
- ↑ He has just wanted to beat her up, he's already winking at her again in FAZ on January 27, 2017, page 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herheim, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo , Norway |