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Recording of the month

Der fliegende Holländer conducted by Franz Konwitschny


DVD of the month

The Copenhagen Ring


Important years in Richard Wagner's life

1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice

 

Stefan Herheim

Stefan Herheim (born 1970) is a Norwegian stage director based in Germany. Herheim was first educated as a cellist. He has studied stage direction with Götz Friedrich at the Hamburg University of Music and Performing Arts in 1994. The magazine Opernwelt named him stage director of the year 2007 (Regisseur des Jahres).

Stefan Herheim's productions

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Landestheater Linz)
Wagner: Parsifal (Bayreuther Festspiele)
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Riga/Bergen)
Verdi: La Forza del Destino (Staatsoper Unter den Linden)
Verdi: Falstaff (Staatstheater Oldenburg)
Verdi: Don Carlos (Landestheater Linz)
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Wiener Volksoper)
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Essen)
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Salzburg Festival)
Mozart: Così fan tutte (Stockholm Opera)
Händel: Giulio Cesare (The Norwegian National Opera, Oslo)
Bizet: Carmen (Graz)
Bellini: I Puritani (Aalto Theater, Essen)

Stefan Herheim's upcoming projects

Wagner: Lohengrin (Staatsoper Unter den Linden)
Wagner: Tannhäuser (The Norwegian National Opera, Oslo)
Dvorak: Rusalka (Bruxelles)

Stefan Herheim was awarded the prize for Best Director, the Regiepreis der Götz Friedrich Stiftung 2003 for his production of I Puritani at the Aalto Theater in Essen.

Stefan Herheim productions on DVD

Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Salzburg Festival)

 

External links (interviews etc.)

Der fliegende Norweger (interview with Focus.de in German on religion)
"Dem Werk stand ich lange skeptisch gegenüber" (Stefan Herheim interviewed by festspiele.de)

 

Read about Stefan Herheim's production of Parsifal in Bayreuth

 

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