Tobias Hoheisel

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Tobias Hoheisel

Tobias Hoheisel (* 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German stage and costume designer .

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After graduating from high school, Hoheisel passed the entrance exam at the Berlin University of the Arts and studied with Achim Freyer and Martin Rupprecht .

During a brief period as assistant to Marco Arturo Marelli in Hamburg (who was followed by two assistants to Karl Ernst Herrmann in Brussels), he got to know the director Nikolaus Lehnhof , with whom he worked on 15 opera productions from 1982 to 2001, first as costume and later as costume - and set designers worked together.

Three operas by Leoš Janáček produced for the Glyndebourne Festival (1988, 1989 and 1995) were shown in several European and non-European cities. a. in Hamburg, Berlin, Barcelona and Lyon. The Makropulos affair with Anja Silja in 2000 was Glyndebourne's first guest appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the USA. Hans Werner Henze's Boulevard Solitude , produced in 2001 by the Royal Opera Covent Garden London , won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Opera Production and was then shown at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and at the Gran Teatro de Liceu in Barcelona .

Hoheisel has worked with numerous other directors, including Johannes Schaaf , Steven Pimlott , Robert Carsen and, since 2004, with Tim Albery , especially at the Santa Fe Opera Festival ( Magic Flute , Arabella , Capriccio and Ariadne on Naxos ). There were also works with directing actors and singers, for example with Anja Silja (whose only directorial work was Lohengrin at the Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1990) Lucinda Childs , Brigitte Fassbaender , Udo Samel and Fanny Ardant at the Greek National Opera ( Lady Macbeth from Mzensk , Athens 2019).

In addition to the opera work, he also worked repeatedly in acting projects, including a. at the Schillertheater Berlin , the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , the Schauspiel Köln , the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theater London. At the Burgtheater , as part of the Wiener Festwochen in 1992, he designed the costumes for the world premiere of Peter Handke's The Hour since We Didn't Know About Each Other , directed by Claus Peymann, and the German premiere of Yasmina Reza's art at the Schaubühne in Berlin in 1995 . The 1997 performance of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov at the Almeida Theater in London was invited to the Moscow Art Theater .

Other stations of his activity were the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Staatsoper Unter den Linden , the Bavarian State Opera , the Cologne Opera , the Frankfurt Opera , the Hamburg State Opera , the Vienna State Opera , the Theater an der Wien , the English National Opera , the Teatro Real , the Teatro alla Scala , the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , the Opéra Bastille , the Palais Garnier and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , De Nederlandse Opera , the Theatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro , the San Francisco Opera , Lyric Opera of Chicago , The Canadian Opera Company (Toronto) and the Bolshoi Theater Moscow .

Starting in 2002, in collaboration with the actress Imogen Kogge, she created her own opera productions at the Nederlandse Reisopera , the Scottish Opera , the Edinburgh International Festival , the Cologne Opera and the Aalto-Theater Essen.

Hoheisel also occasionally teaches as a visiting lecturer in the Scenography course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama .

He is married to the linguist and translator Michael LS Wells and lives in London and Normandy .

Web links

Commons : Tobias Hoheisel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Theater and Philharmonic Essen: Tobias Hoheisel | Theater and Philharmonic Essen (TUP). Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  2. a b My Summer Reading: Theater Designer Tobias Hoheisel. In: The Arts Desk. August 25, 2010, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  3. Nikolaus Harnoncourt: We are a community of discovery: Notes on the emergence of the Concentus Musicus . Residenz Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7017-4564-7 ( google.de [accessed on January 14, 2020]).
  4. Michael Kennedy, Julia Aries: Glyndebourne: A Short History . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019, ISBN 978-1-78442-423-7 ( google.de [accessed January 14, 2020]).
  5. Manuel Brug: Dark Side of the Gluck Moon: Robert Carsens and Thomas Hengelbrock's captivating "Iphigénie en Tauride" in Paris. In: Brug's classics. June 23, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2020 (German).
  6. a b c d e f g h i Operabase: Tobias Hoheisel, director. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  7. Brigitte Fassbaender: 'Don't get out of amazement': Memoirs . CH Beck, 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-74116-6 ( google.de [accessed January 14, 2020]).
  8. Manuel Brug: One and a half years after the opening: Impressive sample at the Greek National Opera as a modern art acropolis with Fanny Ardant's “Lady Macbeth” production. In: Brug's classics. May 22, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2020 (German).
  9. Martina Schürmann: "Norma" in Essen: battle of hearts, victory of voice. October 7, 2016, accessed January 13, 2020 .