Ingolf Huhn (born in 1955) is a German
opera manager and
theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...
.
Life
Born in
Magdeburg
Magdeburg (; nds, label= Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river.
Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Mag ...
, after the
Abitur
''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen yea ...
Huhn studied opera direction in Berlin,
musicology in Leipzig and theology. Afterwards he was a master student at the Academy of Arts with
Ruth Berghaus
Ruth Berghaus (2 July 1927 – 25 January 1996) was a German choreographer, opera and theatre director, and artistic director.
Life and career
Berghaus was born in Dresden and studied Expressionist dance and Dance direction with Gret Palucca th ...
. He then worked for ten years as an opera director at the
Meiningen Court Theatre
The Staatstheater Meiningen (State Theatre Meiningen), also called the Meiningen Theatre, is a four-division theater in the Thuringian town of Meiningen, Germany. The theater was founded in 1831 and was called ″Meininger Hoftheater″ (Meininge ...
. During this period he was also a frequent guest director at the
Graz Opera
The Graz Opera (German: Oper Graz) is an Austrian opera house and opera company based in Graz. The orchestra of the opera house also performs concerts as the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra (''Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester'').
History
Opera h ...
in
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
/Austria. From 1998 to 2003 Huhn worked as the artistic director of the in
Freiberg
Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called ''Große Kreisstadt'' (large county town) and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district.
Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage ...
and
Döbeln
Döbeln ( hsb, Doblin) is a town in Saxony, Germany, part of the Mittelsachsen district, on both banks of the river Freiberger Mulde.
History
* 981: First written mention of Döbeln ( Margravate of Meissen).
* Around 1220: Döbeln is describ ...
. From 2003 to 2008 he held the position of General Director of the .
On 1 January 2010 Huhn succeeded Hans-Hermann Krug as managing director of the in
Annaberg-Buchholz
Annaberg-Buchholz () is a town in Saxony, Germany. Lying in the Ore Mountains, it is the capital of the district of Erzgebirgskreis.
Geography
The town is located in the Ore Mountains, at the side of the ''Pöhlberg'' ( above sea level).
Hi ...
.
Publications
* ''Wagners Öffentlichkeitssyndrom''.
* ''Richard Wagners soziales Theaterkonzept : Untersuchungen zu Wagners Entwurf eines gesellschaftlich relevanten Theaters.''
''Richard Wagners soziales Theaterkonzept : Untersuchungen zu Wagners Entwurf eines gesellschaftlich relevanten Theaters.''
on WorldCat
References
External links
*
Ingolf Huhn
on Operabase
Operabase is an online database of opera performances, opera houses and companies, and performers themselves as well as their agents. Found at operabase.com, it was created in 1996 by English software engineer and opera lover Mike Gibb.Edward Sc ...
NMZ – Ingolf Huhn
Kreativität und beneidenswerte Phantasie. Ingolf Huhn: Opern-Archäologe und Realist anlässlich Mangolds „Tanhäuser“ in Annaberg-Buchholz
– Interview with Huhn and portrait of the manager by Geerd Heinsen
Interview with Ingolf Huhn at "Age of Artists"
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German opera directors
German theatre directors
1955 births
Living people
People from Magdeburg