Waltraud Lehner

Waltraud Lehner (* 1968 in Munich ) is a German opera director .

Career

Waltraud Lehner studied modern German literature , linguistics and musicology in her hometown, Berlin and London . After graduating, she was engaged as a director at the Heidelberg Theater, where she presented her first own productions in 1999 with Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in 2000. In 2001 she was the winner of the European Opera Directing Award for a directing concept by Fidelio . In 2006 she was awarded the Chamber Opera Prize by Music Theater Now for her world premiere of Juliane Kleines westzeitstory and has been nominated several times for the production of the year in the opera world. As a director and production manager, she was engaged at the Hanover State Opera and the Stuttgart State Opera from 2005 to 2011, where she staged The Merry Widow , Idomeneo and Eugen Onegin , westzeitstory and Girotondo . Waltraud Lehner was director of the opera studio of the Stuttgart State Opera from 2009 to 2011, had a lectureship at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart from 2007 to 2012 and has been professor of stage direction at the University of Music and Performing Arts since 2013 Theater Munich .

In addition to concentrating on world premieres such as Juliane Klein's westzeitstory at the Junge Oper of the Stuttgart State Opera, Fabio Vacchi's setting of Schnitzler's Reigen Girotondo at the Kammertheater der Staatstheater Stuttgart and Othmar Schoeck's Vom Fischer un syner Fru at the Lübeck Theater, Waltraud Lehner has numerous productions with a novel Brogli-Sacher, Manfred Honeck, Marc Soustrot (conductor), Tilo Steffens, Stefan Heinrichs, Thilo Reuther, Nikolaus Porz, Kazuko Watanabe (stage), Elisabeth Pedross , Petra Strass (stage and costumes), Katherina Kopp, Werner Pick and Thomas Kaiser (Costumes) and Georg Lendorff (video).

Productions (selection)

• 1999: Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly at the Heidelberg Theater
• 2000: Giuseppe Verdi Un ballo in maschera at the Heidelberg Theater, EXPO project 2000 Saxony-Anhalt In the Hours of the New Moon , The Yellow Room for the World Music Days in Luxembourg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio for the Wernigerode Castle Festival
• 2001: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca for the Wernigerode Castle Festival
• 2002: Georg Friedrich Händel Hercules in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Pjotr ​​Iljitsch Tschaikowski Eugen Onegin for the Wernigerode Castle Festival, Albert Lortzing Zar and Zimmermann at the Annaberg Theater, Engelbert Humperdinck Hänsel and Gretel at the Trier Theater
• 2003: Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto in the tent palace Merzig
• 2004: Benjamin Britten Albert Herring , Carl Zeller The Bird Trader at the Annaberg Theater
• 2006: Franz Lehár The Merry Widow at the State Opera Hanover, world premiere of the westzeitstory by Juliane Klein at the Young Opera of the State Opera Stuttgart,
• 2007: World premiere of German Autumn: 30 Years Later - A musical reflection of the RAF events at the Stuttgart State Opera
• 2008: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Eugen Onegin at the Stuttgart State Opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Idomeneo at the Stuttgart State Opera, Giacomo Puccini La Bohème at the Nordhausen Theater
• 2010: Dmitri Schostakowitsch: NOS - The nose at the Koblenz Theater
• 2011: German premiere of Fabio Vacchi's Girotondo in the Kammertheater der Staatstheater Stuttgart, Peter Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse and Othmar Schoeck Vom Fischer un syner Fru at the Theater Lübeck
• 2012: WA Mozart Le nozze di Figaro , Don Giovanni at the Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart
• 2014: Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila at the Koblenz Theater

Web links

• Homepage Waltraud Lehner