Michael Leinert

Michael Leinert ( born October 20, 1942 in Meldorf, Schleswig -Holstein) is a freelance director, playwright, lecturer, and author.

Life

He was born the son of composer and musicologist Friedrich Leinert and singer Agathe Wenzlaff. After leaving school at the Waldorf School Hanover, he studied music and literature. He was a pupil of Helmut Winschermann (oboe) in Detmold, before studying at the University of Munich and the local music academy opera and theater director with Professors Heinz Arnold and August Ever thing.

1966/67, he was assistant director of senior director Ernst Poettgen at the Stuttgart State Opera and dramaturgical staff ( program book ) for the Freischütz staging of Walter Felsenstein. As a playwright and play director, he worked at the theaters Kiel, Brunswick, Coburg, at the Hamburg State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the theater in Bremen. Here he worked as a dramaturge with the director Rudolf Noelte at its Freischütz staging. Leinert 1986 was one of the speakers at the " Carl Maria von Weber days " of the (former ) German Democratic Republic in Dresden - Scientific Conference: " Carl Maria von Weber - the heritage as an inspiration for the present." In the former Palace of Culture Dresden he talked about Carl Maria von Weber as a writer and poet ( musical artist lives).

In 1988, he became the manager at Palatinate Theatre Kaiserslautern. Three years later, Leinert Professor at the Staatstheater Kassel, which he directed until 1999 as a director. Here he created the first European playwrights competition with over 1,000 entries from all over Europe, among other things, was sponsored by Sir Peter Ustinov and August Ever thing. From November 1999 to August 2006 Michael Leinert director and artistic staff of the Intendant General Tobias Richter served as chief playwright, worked at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf -Duisburg.

As a guest, he staged at opera houses and theaters in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Cyprus and the USA.

He is married to the American opera singer and professor of voice Susan Owen - Leinert.

Works / productions

Leinerts productions of Janacek's Jenufa, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Alban Berg's Wozzeck and especially the Wagner dramas Tristan and Isolde, The Flying Dutchman and Tannhäuser found a big crowd and supra-regional interest, as did Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, which was performed at the end of his tenure as director of the Staatstheater Kassel in the cycle.

He is the director of the German premieres of Sergei Rachmaninov's opera Francesca da Rimini and Jean Sibelius ' only opera The Maid in the Tower ( Jungfru i Tornet ), the premiere of the first Cypriot Chamber Opera Manoli! the composer Vassos Arghyrides and Opera Fackeltanz the Danish composer Bent Lorentzen.

Its Low German opera parody De Hamburger Freischütz or De Bruutschuss ( written and directed ) was in the Opera stable the Hamburg State Opera premiere, played by the Theater Bremen and produced by Radio Bremen as a radio play version. In Phonogram ( PolyGram ) the parody appeared on record.

In February 2003, Michael Leinert was the director of Donizetti's rarely performed opera buffa Il Borgomastro di Saardam at the Hamburg Chamber Opera. In October 2004, he brought there, Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro in a new German version of the text by Beaumarchais out. He also staged in October 2005 Paisiello 's The Barber of Seville.

In March 2006, Leinert has successfully staged the opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, with the singer Marlis Petersen as Ophélie ( she was invited to this game in 2010 to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City). At the Hamburg Chamber Opera had on 1 November 2006 his production of Wagner 's early opera The Ban on Love in a processing premiere.

Apart from the classical repertoire, Leinert has been used mainly for the contemporary musical theater with productions of works, among others Mauricio Kagel, John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Ingomar Auer, Hans -Joachim Hesp, Wilfried Hiller, Hans- Jürgen von Bose. At the Braunschweig State Theatre, he directed the 1981 German premiere of Ján Cikker The Earthquake in Chile ( after Heinrich von Kleist ). The opera magazine Orpheus International recorded this work with the title " staging of the Month" from. With Ernst Krenek's opera Orpheus and Eurydice ( libretto by Oskar Kokoschka ) Leinert 1993 led his employment with the musical theater of the 20th century continued. In 1996, the magazine Opernwelt his production of Alexander Zemlinsky Sarema ( Theater Trier ), together with Handel's Tolomeo the Halle Opera House, at the head of the notable opera excavations of the year. Leinert was head of the series Musica Nova at the theaters Kiel (1970 -1974 ). Then he set up at many German theaters, a studio for experimental music theater. In Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper), he was responsible along with Walter Home for the experimental stage in the Marstall 1978-1980.

In the drama staged Leinert James Saunders ' neighbor and an unfortunate accident ( Munich Press Price tz- Rose), Schiller's The Maid of Orleans, Gombrowicz's Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy, Racine's Phaedra and Goethe's Faust I. On the Kassel State Theatre, he directed Nikolaj Koljadas The American as German premiere, which was also shown in Yekaterinburg. As a director, he successfully lobbied for the premiere of Bernd Gieseking KZ - piece Breitenauer walls a. In October 2002, he was at the National Theatre of Cyprus (Cyprus Theatre Organisation THOC ) in Nicosia, the director of the world premiere of Nikos Kazantzakis Goethe transfer of Faust. He also staged in March 2007 Molière's Don Juan.

Leinert 2007 staged the first performance in Memphis, Tennessee / USA by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 's monodrama The Medium with Susan Owen - Leinert at the new Chamber Opera of Memphis. Leinerts Staging repertoire spans a wide berth from the first surviving German Singspiel Seelewig ( Sigmund Theophil Staden ) from 1644 to contemporary experimental music theater, which is also the kind operetta and especially the opera for children have found an important place in his theater work.

Teaching

Michael Leinert had since 1974 teaching positions and was among other things a lecturer at the Universities of Braunschweig, Bremen, Hamburg, and Munich, Eichstätt. At the Academies of Music in Hamburg and Dusseldorf, he has also taught ( opera director and operatic performance ).

Publications

• Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle (Live - total intake ) published on CD and produced by the ARS label production.
• Libretto for Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, opera by Bent Lorentzen, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen.
• Libretto for the chamber opera The novel with the bass after the story by Chekhov, chamber opera by Jürg Baur. Published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden; Premiere in Dusseldorf.
• Libretti for contemporary chamber operas ( compositions by Bentzon, Rempe, Lorentzen, F. Leinert ) with first performances in Kiel, Braunschweig, Kassel, Hamburg and Munich.
• Monograph on Carl Maria von Weber - with translations into Swedish and Chinese; Random House, Reinbek ( 5th edition ).
• Theater as a fast-food stall? In: Why we need the theater. Pp. 62-66; Suhrkamp paperback in 2483; Edited by Peter Iden.
• Musical artist life - Weber as a writer and poet. In: About musical theater. A Festschrift dedicated to Arthur Bath Baby, eds Stefan G. Harpner and Birgit Gotzes. Ricordi, Munich 1992, pp. 156-162. (previously already: Articles for Musicology, Vol 30, No. 1 (1988 ), pp. 84-89. )
• My musical theater experience with Bent Lorentzen. In: Skriftfest. Bent Lorentzen og hans music. Publisher [ Koncrt & Koncpt ], Hellerup, Copenhagen, 2005.

• Music theater - German Translation: Jean Sibelius The Virgin in the tower, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen.
• Tom Johnson four- tone opera, Sikorski Music Publishers, Hamburg and G. Schirmer Inc., New York.

• Libretti of operas for children, such as The magic horn after Weber's Oberon.
• The Magic Flute by Mozart.
• Der Freischütz and the devil, according to Weber, premiered on 28 November 2000 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf -Duisburg.

For several journals, he has written articles on the subject of music and theater, including the world of opera. As an author of radio plays, he worked for Radio Bremen and Hamburg NDR ( De Fleegen Hollanner, Schandal op'n Gaensemarkt and others). As a music editor, he produced at NDR Hamburg radio broadcasts on the subject of Carl Maria von Weber.

• Co-editor of the first critical edition of one - and two-voice piano songs in 12 Vols. by Louis Spohr in publishing Dohr, Cologne.