Friedrich Meyer-Oertel

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Friedrich Meyer-Oertel
Born(1936-04-03)3 April 1936
Leipzig
Died14 March 2021(2021-03-14) (aged 84)
Education
  • Musikakademie
    , Vienna (composition and oboe)
  • Universität Wien
    (musicology)
Occupations
  • Stage director
  • Opera director
Years active

Friedrich Meyer-Oertel (3 April 1936 – 14 March 2021) was a German opera director. After positions at

Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opernhaus Wuppertal and Staatstheater Darmstadt
, he was active as a freelance stage director.

Career

Born in

Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1974 to 1979. From 1979 to 1996 he was director of the Opernhaus Wuppertal, where he worked intensively with stage designer Hanna Jordan [de] and others, and from 1996 to 2004 director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.[2]

His most famous productions include

Oper Köln, Richard Strauss' Elektra at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Johann Strauss's operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig at the Komische Oper Berlin, and Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in Barcelona. He staged in Mannheim also Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Die Hamletmaschine in 1987.[5]

His special interest in Leoš Janáček led to productions of Jenůfa at Montpellier,[6] Liège, Monte Carlo and Bordeaux,[7] Káťa Kabanová in Wuppertal and The Makropulos Affair in Darmstadt.

In 2012 he directed at the Israeli Opera Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.[8]

Death

He died aged 84 on 14 March 2021.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Meyer-Oertel Friedrich, director". Israel Opera. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Friedrich Meyer-Oertel" (in German). berlin-buehnen. Archived from the original on 21 July 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  3. ^ Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, George Henry Hubert (1996). Opera. Rolls House Publishing Company. p. 1052.
  4. ^ ""Die Feen" - Oper in drei Akten von Richard Wagner" (in German). Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Annuaire du spectacle 1998-99 (éd. 2000)". Nationaltheater Mannheim. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  6. ISBN 978-2-87282-293-5
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  7. ^ Gilmont, Martine; Dubois, Nancy (2 April 2000). "Musik gibt die Richtung vor / Porträt: Frankreich entdeckt Janáceks Opern in Inszenierungen des Darmstädter Regisseurs Friedrich Meyer-Oertel" (in German). echo-online.de.
  8. ^ "Meyer-Oertel Friedrich, director". Israeli Opera. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  9. ^ Landmann, Antje (17 March 2021). "„Am Nationaltheater unvergessen": Zum Tod von Opernregisseur Friedrich Meyer-Oertel". Die Rheinpfalz (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2021.

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