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