Titus Hollweg

Titus Hollweg (2008)

Titus Hollweg (born September 5, 1975 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian-German director .

Career

His father was the opera singer Werner Hollweg (1936–2007), his mother the music manager Konstanze Hollweg. Hollweg was with the Vienna Boys' Choir and appeared together with his father in 1985 on the program Zum Blauen Bock . Hollweg created his first direction at the age of nineteen in the Wiener Konzerthaus ( Johann Sebastian Bach's Coffee Cantata ).

Direction in music theater

Hollweg's own directorial work took him to Belgium and Canada. Most recently he staged Igor Stravinski's “ The Rake's Progress ” for the Opera-Studio in Gent / Belgium and “ Ariadne auf Naxos ” for the Toronto Summer Music Festival (Canada). In spring 2011 he staged John Blow's baroque opera “ Venus and Adonis ” for a young opera ensemble, and in the following summer Darius Milhaud's “Minute Operas” and the cantata “Le retour de l'enfant prodigue” at the Austrian Festival Carinthischer Sommer . In summer 2012 he staged Mozart's “ The Magic Flute ” at the National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan.

Children's opera

Titus Hollweg occupied himself extensively with children's opera ; from 1997 he designed over a dozen productions for the Vienna Boys' Choir. Hollweg received, together with Emanuel Schulz , several composition commissions from the Jeunesse Musicale (the children's opera “The Foreign Planet”, the secular oratorio “Lichtung”) and from the Allegretto cycle of the Wiener Musikverein. For this he wrote the libretto for the children's opera Märchenmatrix and composed some songs. The opera was premiered in 2006 in the Brahms Hall of the Wiener Musikverein under his direction and played twelve times.

His most important directorial work in the field of children's opera is Gerald Wirth's “The Little Prince” based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the children's theater tent on the roof of the Vienna State Opera and Engelbert Humperdinck's “ Hansel and Gretel ” at the Raimund Theater in Vienna . Every year Hollweg organizes workshops for children and young people, for example in connection with his own music film festival “Opera under the stars” in Lower Austria.

Movie and TV

Since 1999 Titus Hollweg has worked as an editor, director and designer for various television production companies. In 2006 he founded the production company "Telemach Film", whose projects include a short film series entitled "Sospiri 05" and the film adaptation of Darius Milhaud's Minute Operas. He also produced numerous image films for companies and artists, such as the Philharmonia Schrammeln. In 2007 he accepted the invitation of the production company Tellux-Film to direct several episodes of a short film series. In 2008 and 2009 there are 45-minute documentaries, most recently about the Muri Gries monastery in Bozen ( Bayerischer Rundfunk / 3sat ). He is currently working on a script for an epic documentary about artistic approaches to sacred music .

Filmography (selection)

• 2007: Design of 4 episodes of the series "1x1 der Wirtschaft" and "1x1 des Rechts"
• 2007: "Aristotle", "Ludwig XIV", "Spartacus" and "Die Teutons"; (4 × 15 minutes)
• 2008: TV documentary of the series "Klöster am Inn", "Altötting" (45 minutes)
• 2009: TV documentary of the series "Alpenklöster", "Muri Gries" (45 minutes)
• 2009: Various image films and advertising films
• 2010: Reports on animal psychology (45 minutes)
• 2010: Two-part documentary about the Vienna Opera Ball (2 × 45 minutes)
• 2010: " The Lugners " in Bali (3-part documentary soap)
• 2011: Documentary about animal burial (45 minutes)
• 2011: Report about rural doctors in Austria (50 minutes)
• 2011: "The Lugners" in Rio (4-part documentary soap)
• 2011: "We live in community housing" (10-part reality soap)

Web links

• Titus Hollweg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Titus Hollweg homepage
• Titus Hollweg at Operabase (productions)
• Homepage Telemach Film Production
• Homepage Music film festival OPERA UNDER STARS
• Video of Hollweg's vocal performance with father

Remarks

1. ↑ Toronto Music Festival: Ariadne auf Naxos ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Lower Austrian news: Baroque opera with great artists
3. ↑ Vienna Boys' Choir: Children's Operas ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 31, 2011. 
4. ↑ Titus Hollweg in the Internet Movie Database (English)