Stefan Herheim
Stefan Herheim ( born March 13, 1970 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian opera director, who has worked at numerous theaters in the German area, in Scandinavia, the Benelux and the Baltic States.
Life
Herheim trained as a cellist. Later he gained Regierfahrung on his own puppet theater before he studied from 1994 to 1999 in Hamburg opera director Götz Friedrich. His thesis there was a production of The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
For its production of I Puritani at the Aalto Theatre in Essen 2002 Herheim received the Government Award of Götz- Friedrich -Stiftung. In the following years he fell through a series controversially discussed working on: At the Salzburg Festival with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio (2003), with Julius Caesar by George Frideric Handel at Den Norske Opera in Oslo and La forza del destino in Berlin (2005 ), with Wagner's Das Rheingold at the Latvian National Opera in Riga (2006 ), a Don Giovanni in Essen (2007 ) and finally the acclaimed production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival (2008).
At the Berlin State Opera in 2009, he staged Lohengrin. In 2010 he was principal director at the Semperoper in Dresden. At the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam in 2011, he produced Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, was conductor Mariss Jansons.
Three times the Opernwelt elected him Director of the Year. 2007 for the Essenes Don Giovanni, for his directing of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008 and 2010 for his Rosenkavalier production at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.