Barrie Kosky
Barrie Kosky (born 1967 in Melbourne / Australia) is an opera and theater director. Today he lives and works in Berlin.
Biography
Kosky, grandson of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and Hungary went to the Melbourne Grammar School, where he in Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 1981 stood on the stage and later his first play staged. After a profound musical training in piano and music history at the University of Melbourne he turned to the director, but was in many of his productions always be on the stage or sitting at the piano. Barrie Kosky has no strict distinction in spoken and music theater. So he established in all his productions at theaters talk music and singing as a major theatrical level. In many productions, he accompanies the action on the stage himself at the piano ( " Poppea ", "The Tell-Tale Heart ," " The lost breath" ... ) or connects the music of an orchestra with the action on stage ( "The Castle" ... ). Music and singing are in Kosky never accompaniment or background music of the stage action, but an integral part of the theatrical event.
Career
His opera productions in Australia include Seneca's Oedipus and Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Sydney Theatre Company, Shakespeare's King Lear at the Bell Shakespeare Company, The Golem by Larry Sitsky, Verdi's Nabucco, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the Sydney Opera House, Oedipus Rex at the Queensland Opera, Goethe's Faust I and II at the Melbourne Theatre Company; the modern opera Oresteia by Liza Lim, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Victoria State Opera, The Knot Garden by Michael Tippett and "The Burlesque Tour" with singer and entertainer Paul Capsis at the Melbourne Spoleto Festival.
From 1990 to 1997, Barrie Kosky artistic director of Gilgul Theatre Company. There he staged The Dybbuk, It burns ... Levad, The Wilderness Room and operated on the Jew - everything works with which Kosky to questions of Jewish culture and Jewish identity turned.
In 1996 he became artistic director of the Adelaide Festival.
From 2001 to 2005 he was co-director of the Vienna Schauspielhaus. There, he directed Euripides ' Medea, ' Boulevard Delirium " - an evening with singer and entertainer Paul Capsis, the singing divas from Judy Garland to Janis Joplin devoted himself. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, The Tell-Tale Heart by EA Poe, as well as the " Jewtopia Trilogy" ( Dafke!! , The Lost breath and the castle ), he sat down again with Jewish identity and Jewish artists of Kafka Schumann to Houdini and Sarah Bernhardt apart. Furthermore, he pointed Poppea - which he turned the music of Monteverdi with songs by Cole Porter combined and Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann two productions, which combined with singers, actresses and actors, opera and theater and developed a unique form of musical theater.
After his involvement at the Schauspielhaus Kosky developed into a sought-after opera director in Germany. For the Berlin State Opera, he directed Monteverdi's L' Orfeo and followed at the Komische Oper Berlin, a highly acclaimed Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti, the productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris. At the Vienna State Opera in 2005 had his staging of Lohengrin premiere. In 2006, he staged with Tom Wright the eight -hour evening The Lost Echo - based on Ovid 's Metamorphoses and Euripides ' The Bacchae - for the Sydney Theatre Company. In the same year he staged at the Aalto Theatre in Essen Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and caused quite a scandal; this was followed in December of the same year Tristan and Isolde ( nominated for the fist prize ) and The Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny Brecht / Weill. At the Komische Oper Berlin, he staged for the season 2008/9 Kiss Me, Kate, which was chosen by the theater community in Berlin for the " performance of the year ". On the same house followed Rigoletto ( 2009/ 10), Rusalka ( 2010/ 11), The Seven Deadly Sins (2012 ) with, as it did for Kiss Me, Kate with Dagmar Manzel in the lead role.
In addition, he directed Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bremen and Peter Grimes and Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead for the Hannover State Opera and Vivaldi's Orlando furioso for the Theater Basel.
In autumn 2008, Barrie Kosky was with Strindberg's A Dream Play his highly acclaimed debut at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. The English version of the solo, The Tell-Tale Heart ( Tell- Tale Heart ), he showed at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Sydney International Festival.
In 2009 he began his Ring Cycle in Hanover, he graduated in June 2011. In 2010 he directed Strauss' The Silent Woman at the Bavarian State Opera. He also led in December of the same year directed a double bill with Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók at the Frankfurt Opera.
In 2010, he directed The Merchant of Venice at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and Rameau Castor et Pollux at the English National Opera London. The co-production with the Komische Oper Berlin, which will be on view from May 2014 in Berlin, was awarded the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production.
With the beginning of season 2012/13 Barrie Kosky has taken over as the successor of Andreas Homoki the management of the Komische Oper Berlin as director and chief director. Even his opening production of all three completed operas of Claudio Monteverdi - Orpheus, Ulysses and Poppea - were to experience three times each in a single day than Monteverdi trilogy, earned great response from the public and press. Together with Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt, the artistic minds of the British theater Grupe " in 1927 ," he surprised in the new production of Mozart's Magic Flute with a novel combination of live acting singers and cinematic animation. In June 2013, the new production of Paul Abrahams 1932 first performed jazz operetta Ball im Savoy with Dagmar Manzel, Katherine Mehrlich and Helmut Baumann followed in the lead roles.
In October 2013, the Komische Oper Berlin was selected with its program of the first season under Barrie Kosky of the journal World Opera "Opera House of the Year".
Kosky's staging of Gluck's Armide had in October 2013 at the Opera House in Amsterdam premiere. Productions in Zurich, Glyndebourne and Frankfurt are planned for the future.
In May 2012, Kosky was appointed as a new member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, whose election he accepted. An active membership requires that artists participate actively in the tasks of the academy, so he will show more presence in the future of the Academy.
Awards
Award winners
- Theater community in Berlin (2008) Performance of the Year for Kiss Me, Kate ( Komische Oper Berlin)
- Faust Price (2009 ) for: House of the Dead ( Staatsoper Hannover) - Best Director Music Theatre
- Laurence Olivier Award (2011 ) for: Castor and Pollux - Best new opera production
- Opera House of the Year (2012 /13), chosen by 50 critics of the journal Opernwelt
Nominated
- Nestroy (2002 ) for: Medea ( Schauspielhaus Wien) - Best Director
- Faust Award (2007 ) Tristan and Isolde ( Aalto - Theater in Essen ) - Best Director Music Theatre
- Director of the Year (2012 /13) - journal Opernwelt