Günther Rennert

Günther Rennert ( born April 1, 1911 in Essen, † July 31, 1978 in Salzburg ) was a German opera director and manager.

Life

Günther Rennert Peter studied law in Munich, Berlin and Halle. To his doctorate in 1934, he wrote the dissertation compulsory membership, their justification and their termination.

He studied music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and attended a drama school. 1935 to 1937 he was assistant director of the Frankfurt Opera in Frankfurt am Main, 1938/39 in Wuppertal, 1939/40 in Mainz and 1940-1942 senior director at the opera in Königsberg, 1942/43, head of the German Opera in Berlin.

After the war he opened in 1945, the Bavarian State Opera with a production of Fidelio, and was from 1946 to 1956 director of the Hamburg State Opera. 1959 to 1967 he worked as senior director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and staged next including Stuttgart and Hamburg. Rennert was from 1967 to 1976 director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and since 1973 professor of opera dramaturgy at the local music school. As a guest director, he worked among others in New York, Edinburgh, Salzburg, London, Buenos Aires and Milan. Rennert staged, among other Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea at the Vienna State Opera and in San Francisco, translated and published libretti opera work. Productions 1963-73 (1974).

Besides operas, he also staged plays, including 1950 TS Eliot's The Family Day on Schlossparktheater, 1954 Waiting for Godot at Helmuth Gmelin in the Hamburg theater in the Room, 1957 Life of Galileo at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, 1961 The Madwoman of Chaillot in Vienna, 1962 The Government Inspector at the Berlin Schiller Theater and 1978 Stella at the Theater in der Josefstadt (including with Christian Quadflieg and Marianne Nentwich ). Stella was the last premiere of a drama directed by Rennert. Already prepared in the late spring of 1978, she came first, as planned, in the fall of that year to the performance. In the meantime, Rennert had at the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Der Rosenkavalier (Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi ) worked, but was already suffering during rehearsals in pain and went immediately after the rehearsal to a ( long overdue gewesenen ) operation in the Diaconal Hospital Salzburg, where, a few days after the premiere, died of a pulmonary embolism.

Günther Rennert was buried in the cemetery Krailling near Munich.