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Daniela Kerck
Daniela Kerck is a German scenic designer and stage director who has worked internationally. She directed and created the stage for Jörg Widmann's opera ''Babylon'' that opened the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in 2022, and again for Puccini's '' Turandot'' for the 2024 festival. Her staging of the world premiere of Søren Nils Eichberg's ''Oryx and Crake'' was nominated for the 2023 International Opera Awards. Life and career Kerck studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Erich Wonder. Her thesis was titled "Every Room is the Centre of the World". She worked as Wonder's assistant at the Zürich Opera House, the Berlin State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, among others. She made scenic designs for the Schauspielhaus Wien, the Latvian National Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Teatro Zarzuela in Madrid. She recreated the scenic design by Wonder for ''Salome'' by Richard Strauss, directed by Luc Bondy, for a productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. History The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di San Luca and the Parisien Académie de peinture et de sculpture by the court-painter Peter Strudel, who became the ''Praefectus Academiae Nostrae''. In 1701 he was ennobled by Emperor Joseph I as ''Freiherr'' (Baron) of the Empire. With his death in 1714, the academy temporarily closed. On 20 January 1725, Emperor Charles VI appointed the Frenchman Jacob van Schuppen as Prefect and Director of the Academy, which was refounded as the ''k.k. Hofakademie der Maler, Bildhauer und Baukunst'' (Imperial and Royal Court Academy of painters, sculptors and architecture). Upon Charles's death in 1740, the academy at first declined, however during the rule of his daughter Empress Maria Theresa, a new statute reformed the academy in 1751. The prestig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volksoper
The Vienna Volksoper (''Volksoper'' or ''Vienna People's Opera'') is an opera house in Vienna, Austria. It produces three hundred performances of twenty-five German language productions of opera, operetta, musicals, and ballet, during an annual season which runs from September through June. History Foundation The Volksoper was built in 1898 as the ''Kaiserjubiläum-Stadttheater'' (Kaiser's Jubilee Civic Theatre), originally producing only plays. Because of the very brief construction period (10 months) the first director Adam Müller-Gutenbrunn had to start with debts of 160,000 florins. After this inauspicious startup the ''Kaiserjubiläum-Stadttheater'' had to declare bankruptcy five years later in 1903. Music theater from 1903 to 1950s On 1 September 1903, Rainer Simons took over the house and renamed it the ''Kaiserjubiläum-Stadttheater - Volksoper'' (public opera). His intention was to continue the production of plays but also establish series of opera and operetta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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