Tobias Kratzer

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Tobias Kratzer
Born (1980-01-17) 17 January 1980 (age 41)
Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
EducationBayerische Theaterakademie
OccupationStage director
AwardsÖsterreichischer Musiktheaterpreis

Tobias Kratzer (born 17 January 1980) is a German stage director, especially of opera, who has worked internationally after winning a competition in Graz with two entries in 2008. He has staged works by Verdi and Wagner, but also contemporary music. He directed Wagner's Tannhäuser for the 2019 Bayreuth Festival.

Career[]

Born in Landshut, Kratzer studied art history in Munich and Berne. After completion, he turned to studying staging plays and music theatre at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding.[1] His first productions were in 2006 at the Münchner Akademietheater Brecht/Weill's Die sieben Todsünden and in 2008 Werner Egk's . He staged at the Münchner Reaktorhalle in 2006 Verdi's La traviata, working for the first time with stage designer from Regensburg[1] and the conductor with whom he has frequently collaborated.[2]

The team, called ATEF, won prizes at the competition "Ring Award" in Graz with productions of Verdi's Rigoletto.[2] Kratzer had nominated two stagings under two pseudonyms, as Ginger Holiday, an American female director, and as Pedrak Topola from Bulgaria.[1] Following the attention at the competition, the team received commissions from several opera houses; they staged in 2009 at the Bavarian State Opera Mozart's Così fan tutte, at the Theater Heidelberg his Die Zauberflöte,[1] at the Wermland Opera in Karlstad, Sweden again Rigoletto, and in 2010 at the Leipzig Opera Handel's Admeto,[1] and at the Graz Opera Bellini's La sonnambula.[3]

In the 2010/11 season, Kratzer staged Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss at the Theater Bremen,[4] Donizetti's Anna Bolena at the Lucerne theatre, which was nominated as "Opera of the Year" by Opernwelt,[5] and Telemaco at the Schwetzingen Festival and the Theater Basel.[6] The following season, Kratzer staged Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Theater Bremen, a scenic version of Bach's St John Passion at the Wermland Opera, and Erkki-Sven Tüür's Wallenberg at the Theater Karlsruhe.[7]

His staging of Lehar's Die Csárdásfürstin at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt was nominated for the 2015  [de] in the category "Beste Regie" (Best staging). His production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe was nominated for the award Der Faust.[8] In 2018, he staged a new production of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine – Vasco da Gama at the Oper Frankfurt as an interstellar drama of colonialism ("interstellares Kolonialismusdrama").[9] Conducted by Antonello Manacorda, with Michael Spyres, Claudia Mahnke and Kirsten MacKinnon in leading roles, the story was told as a combination of directing the characters, visionary images and sound magic ("Personenregie, Bildvision und Klangzauber").[9]

Kratzer directed Wagner's Tannhäuser for the opening performance of the 2019 Bayreuth Festival.[10][11]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Brug, Manuel (2010). "Wie die einstige Assistentin von Liz Taylor zur Opernregie wechselte". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Preisverleihung des Ring Award 08, So, 22. Juni 2008, 12.30 Uhr,Schauspielhaus Graz". ringaward.com (in German). 22 June 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Preisverleihung des Ring Award 08, So, 22. Juni 2008, 12.30 Uhr,Schauspielhaus Graz". simskultur.net (in German). 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  4. ^ Lautsplitter, Der Rosenkavalier – Theater Bremen
  5. ^ Opernwelt-Jahrbuch 2011, p. 120.
  6. ^ "Gefährliche Heimwege"
  7. ^ Tobias Kratzer – Vita
  8. ^ "DER FAUST 2015". buehnenverein.de (in German). 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Peter, Wolf-Dieter (1 March 2018). "Frankfurts Oper zeigt Meyerbeers "Vasco da Gama" als interstellares Kolonialismusdrama". Neue Musikzeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  10. ^ Brug, Manuel (27 July 2014). "Wer kommt? Der Fünfjahresplan von Bayreuth". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  11. ^ Amling, Ulrich (26 July 2019). "Bayreuther Festspiele / "Tannhäuser" mit Clown und Drag Queen". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 28 July 2018.

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