Wolfgang Weber (director)

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Wolfgang Weber (born December 2, 1935 in Munich ; † June 28, 2010 ) was an Austrian director .

Life

Weber worked as a director in Austria since the 1960s, mainly in Vienna at the Vienna State Opera and at the Vienna Volksoper . For the first time he staged a production of the Vienna State Opera in 1963, the comic opera Die Kluge in the Theater an der Wien with Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart in the leading roles.

In 1973 he was engaged as a director at the Vienna Volksoper under the direction of Karl Dönch . He also became a personal advisor together with the director Robert Herzl Dönch. From 1976 he was also the head director of the operetta . At the Vienna Volksoper he staged new productions of the operas Dresses Make People by Alexander Zemlinsky (1973), Notre Dame (1975) (with Walter Berry and Julia Migenes ), Albert Herring (1976), and A Prussian Fairy Tale by Boris Blacher (1978 ) (with Ernst Gutstein ), Schwanda, the bagpiper by Jaromír Weinberger (1980) (with Ernst Gutstein and Mirjana Irosch ), From a House of the Dead (1981) and Viva la Mamma (1983).

Weber staged several times for first and world premieres. In February 1972, with Ernst Gutstein in the title role, he staged the musical new version of the opera König Nicolo by Rudolf Weishappel . In 1975, the world premiere of the opera The Imaginary Sick by Franz Alfons Wolpert followed .

He also directed the musical West Side Story in 1982 . At the German-language premiere of West Side Story in 1968 at the Vienna Volksoper with Julia Migenes and Adolf Dallapozza , Weber had already taken over directing the dialogue and co-directing the choreography alongside director Allan Johnson .

In 1981 he staged the Austrian and German-language premiere of Leonard Bernstein's musical theater piece Mass at the Vienna State Opera . In 1982 he became senior director at the Vienna State Opera. There he staged the premieres of Lulu (1983) and Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1985) for a tour of the Vienna State Opera through the Austrian federal states. He was also responsible as a director for the new scenic and musical productions of La fanciulla del West (1988) and Lohengrin (1990).

From 1986 to 1991 he directed the opera studio of the Vienna State Opera together with the conductor Ernst Märzendorfer , for which he also took on his own directorial work.

Weber, who also worked internationally as a director, was also assistant to Herbert von Karajan in his stagings at the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival. Weber regularly staged as a guest director in Germany . In 1968 he directed the world premiere of the opera The Widow of the Butterfly by Isang Yun at the Nuremberg Opera House . In 1990 he took over the new production of the Tannhäuser Opera at the Nuremberg Opera House (title role: Karl-Heinz Thiemann ; musical direction: Christian Thielemann ). In 1997, at the opening of the 1997/1998 season, he staged the new production of the opera Il trovatore at the Aachen Theater .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ King Nicolo entry at Music Information Center Austria
  2. ^ Herbert Prikopa: Die Wiener Volksoper , p. 169. Ibera Verlag, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-9004-3667-3
  3. ^ Herbert Prikopa: Die Wiener Volksoper , p. 201. Ibera Verlag, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-9004-3667-3
  4. ↑ Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz : It is so green. Musical at the Vienna Volksoper . P. 62/67. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-85002-632-1
  5. ↑ Directional work by Wolfgang Weber in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , pp. 816/817. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  6. ↑ The Widow of the Butterfly (1968) Isang Yun catalog raisonné
  7. ↑ The Nuremberg Opera is preparing “Tannhäuser”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Nürnberger Zeitung of October 10, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nz-online.de  
  8. ↑ The Troubadour at the season opening in Aachen in: Online Musik Magazin , 1997
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2010