Christof Nel
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Christof Nel (born 7 April 1944) is a German theatre and opera director. He began his career as an actor but moved on to direct opera productions at major opera houses.
Life
Born in Stuttgart to parents who were both musicians, Nel studied art history and theatre in Munich.[1][2] He began his theater career as an actor, engaged at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer by Peter Stein. He began directing in the 1970s.[1]
His first plays were produced at the
Nel also directed at the
Since the 1980s Nel has also staged music theatre, among others at the Oper Frankfurt, where he directed Weber's Der Freischütz, Verdi's Falstaff, Smetana's Die verkaufte Braut, and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal. There he also directed Salome and Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo in 2011.[3][5] He directed at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and the Staatsoper Hannover. At the Mannheim National Theatre, he directed Offenbach's Hoffmanns Erzählungen.[3][6] Nel staged Weber's Der Freischütz at the Komische Oper Berlin.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Christof Nel". munzinger.de (in German). Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Christof Nel". staatsoper.de (in German). Bavarian State Opera. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Christof Nel". nrw-buehnen.de (in German). Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "Choreografie und Raum bei Heiner Goebbels". www.beckmesser.de.
- ^ Spinola, Julia (7 June 2011). "Oper Frankfurt : Schuld sind immer die anderen". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "Avantgardistischer »Hoffmann« in Mannheim". www.myway.de (in German). 2 October 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
External links
- Literature by and about Christof Nel in the German National Library catalogue
- Christof Nel (articles) Neue Musikzeitung