Knut Hendriksen (15 March 1944 – 10 March 2020) was a Norwegian opera director, who worked most of his career at the

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Career

Hendriksen was appointed at the

from 1969, and stayed there most of his career. His best known productions include ''

The Barber of Seville ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( ) is an ''opera buffa'' (comic opera) in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy ' ...

'' (by

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, staged in 1998), and ''

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

'' (by

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, staged in 2004). From 1980 to 1984 he was on leave from Stockholm, while he served as director and manager of the

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Personal life and death

Hendriksen was born in

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in 1944, a son of

Arne Hendriksen Arne Olav Weiglin Hendriksen (1 January 1911 – 5 November 1996) was a Norwegian-Swedish ceramic artist and opera singer (tenor). Biography Hendriksen was born in Berlin, Germany. He was trained as a ceramic artist, but had a talent for singing ...

. He was a great-grandson of violinist and composer

Ole Bull Ole Bornemann Bull (; 5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer. According to Robert Schumann, he was on a level with Niccolò Paganini for the speed and clarity of his playing. Biography Background Bull was ...

, about whom he wrote a biography in 2000. He died on 10 March 2020.

Selected works

* Biography.

References

1944 births 2020 deaths Theatre people from Bergen Norwegian opera directors Opera managers Norwegian biographers Norwegian expatriates in Sweden {{Norway-bio-stub