Friedrich Meyer-Oertel

Friedrich Meyer- Oertel (* April 1936 in Leipzig ) is a German opera director.

Meyer- Oertel studied commercial art as well as composition and oboe at the Conservatory of Music, Theatre Arts and Musicology at the University of Vienna.

First, he assisted, among others, at the Vienna State Opera and the Stuttgart before 1968, the management of the opera at the Staatstheater Mainz took over. In similar functions he then worked at the National Theatre Mannheim and the Wuppertal Opera - where he worked closely with Hanna Jordan, among others - as well as from 1996 to 2004 at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.

Among his most famous productions of Don Giovanni and Boris Godunov belong to the new opera house in Helsinki, Verdi's Don Carlo in Stockholm, Otello and The Sicilian Vespers in Darmstadt, also staged in Munich, Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser in Gothenburg, The Ring of the Nibelung in Mannheim and Wuppertal, Der Freischütz at the Cologne Opera, Opéra Royal de Wallonie Richard Strauss ' Elektra, at the Komische Oper Berlin Johann Strauss' operetta A Night in Venice, Barcelona Igor Stravinsky's The rake's Progress.

His special interest in Leoš Janáček led to productions of Jenufa in Montpellier, Liège, Monte Carlo and Bordeaux, the Katja Kabanowa in Wuppertal and Makropoulos in Darmstadt.

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