Winfried Radeke

Winfried Radeke (born November 30, 1940 ) is a German composer , church musician, conductor and director.

Radeke founded the Neukölln Opera in Berlin, where he still works today, and as a composer mainly created theater and choral music. For many years he also headed the Collegium Musicum of the (West) Berlin universities .

Works

Stage works

• The birds ( Aristophanes ), Krabat ( Preußler ), The Night of the Cherub ( Heinrich von Kleist ), Bracke ( Klabund ), Hautkopf (dance opera)

Extensive editing

• Die Gans von Cairo ( Mozart ), Amphitryon ( Franz Doelle ), Die Bettleroper ( Pepusch ), The Sound of Music ( Richard Rodgers ), Così fan tutte (Mozart), Die Geisterinsel ( Johann Friedrich Reichardt ), Macbeth ( Verdi )

Children's operas

• The witch Hillary goes to the opera ( Peter Lund ), the witch Hillary and the offended double bass , the frog must go , poor knight , unlucky fellow and lucky child

Other works

• A symphony for choir and large orchestra
• A fair (2000)
• A requiem
• Three oratorios
• Children's song book with CD: Paula's name is my duck (2000)

Direction and / or musical direction

• The Emperor of Atlantis ( Viktor Ullmann ), Molière - The conceited sick man with original music by Charpentier and Lully , The false fifties (Pigor / Radeke)
• Directing work at the Halle Opera House in 1990, 1992, 1999

Awards

• 1995: German Critics' Prize
• 1997: BZ culture award
• 1998: Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung
• 2008: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Web links

• Works by and about Winfried Radeke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Winfried Radeke
• The night of the cherub (PDF; 63 kB)