Will Humburg

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Will Humburg (* 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German conductor .

Life

Will Humburg was trained by Horst Stein and Christoph von Dohnányi . From 1979 to 1983 he was Kapellmeister at the Bremen Theater , from 1983 to 1988 at the Hagen Theater . In 1988 he became artistic director of the Teatro Communale Alessandria / Piedmont and director of the Laboratorio Lirico festival for contemporary music theater in Alessandria / Piedmont. In this role he was responsible for the Italian premieres of the operas Jacob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm , Die Weise von Liebe und Tod by Siegfried Matthus and The Martyrdom of St. Magnus by Peter Maxwell Davies .

From 1992 to 2004 Humburg was general music director of the Munster Municipal Theaters . He has made guest appearances at numerous opera houses at home and abroad and made several opera recordings for the Naxos label . Since 2009 Humburg has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania , Sicily . He has not held this position since the 2012 season. From 2014 to 2018 Will Humburg was general music director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt .

Recordings

  • Puccini: La Bohème
  • Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore
  • Verdi: Falstaff
  • Ľuba Orgonášová - Favorite Soprano Arias
  • Corghi: Divara - water and blood
  • Zimmermann: Ecclesiastic action

literature

  • Musical confessions. Documents and reflections on a series of concerts and operas by the symphony orchestra and the Münster city theaters. On behalf of the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Münster-General Music Director Will Humburg-ed. v. Gernot Wojnarowicz, Münster 1995 (therein p. 103ff .: Will Humburg, Münster-Milan-Lisbon. Divara water and blood: a European total work of art.)
  • Karsten Steiger, operas. A directory of all recordings. All composers and their works on record, CD and laser disk, Munich 2000, pp. 77, 276, 316, 390, 413
  • Will Humburg, Paths to Mozart's "Idomeneo", in: Musik und Szene Münster 1992-2004. Music theater-scenic concerts-symphony concerts. Commissioned by the City of Münster Symphony Orchestra, ed. v. Uwe Schweikert and Berthold Warnecke , Münster 2004, pp. 27–29.
  • Will Humburg, From Leitmotiv to Leitorchestration. Thoughts on the symbolism of instruments in Wagner's Rheingold und Walküre, in: Musik und Szene Münster 1992-2004. Music theater-scenic concerts-symphony concerts. Commissioned by the City of Münster Symphony Orchestra, ed. v. Uwe Schweikert and Berthold Warnecke, Münster 2004, pp. 30–40
  • Will Humburg, Richard Wagner, "The Ring of the Nibelung", in: Musik und Szene Münster 1992-2004. Music theater-scenic concerts-symphony concerts. Commissioned by the City of Münster Symphony Orchestra, ed. v. Uwe Schweikert and Berthold Warnecke, Münster 2004, p. 41 f.
  • Will Humburg, In the delirium of self-righteousness. Thoughts on "Elektra" by Richard Strauss, in: Musik und Szene Münster 1992-2004. Music theater-scenic concerts-symphony concerts. Commissioned by the City of Münster Symphony Orchestra, ed. v. Uwe Schweikert and Berthold Warnecke, Münster 2004, p. 43
  • Will Humburg, Giuseppe Verdi. "Don Carlos". Conceptual and performance-related considerations for the new production in Münster 2004, in: Musik und Szene Münster 1992-2004. Music theater-scenic concerts-symphony concerts. Commissioned by the City of Münster Symphony Orchestra, ed. v. Uwe Schweikert and Berthold Warnecke, Münster 2004, pp. 57–63

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Booklet for the CD recording Il Trovatore - Naxos
personal data
SURNAME Humburg, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg