- Herbert Wernicke
Herbert Wernicke (
March 24 ,1946 –April 16 ,2002 ) was a Germanopera director and a set and costume designer. He was born inAuggen ,Baden-Württemberg . He studied piano, flute, and directing at the conservatory inBraunschweig and set design at the academy inMunich . After starting out as set and costume designer inLandshut andWuppertal , and directing his first play inDarmstadt , he directed his first opera,Handel 'sBelsazar , in 1978 in Darmstadt. The majority of Wernicke's artistic work was at the theater inBasel , where he lived since 1990.On April 16, 2002 Wernicke died unexpectedly at age 56 after a short, serious illness in the hospital in Basel. On
May 5 , 2002Theater Basel premiered "Israel in Egypt " in the fragmentary form left by Wernicke at his death. He was buried in a cemetery in Auggen, his birth city.Important productions
* "
Il Barbiere di Siviglia " (1985, Darmstadt)
* "Judas Maccabaeus " (Bavarian State Opera )
* "Der fliegende Holländer " (Bavarian State Opera)
* "Hippolyte et Aricie " (Deutsche Oper Berlin )
* "Oberon" (Deutsche Oper Berlin)
* "Der Ring des Nibelungen " (1991,Théâtre de la Monnaie inBrussels ;Sylvain Cambreling conducting)
* "La Calisto " (1993;René Jacobs conducting)
* "Orfeo " (1993,Salzburg Festival )
* "Pelléas et Mélisande " (1996, Brussels)
* "Boris Godunow " (1994, Salzburg Festival in coordination with the Easter plays;Claudio Abbado conducting)
* "Der Rosenkavalier " (1995, Salzburg Festival;Lorin Maazel conducting)
* "Fidelio " (1996, Salzburg Festival;Sir Georg Solti conducting)
* "Aus Deutschland " ("From Germany") (byMaurice Kagel , 1997, co-production of the Theater Basel, theHolland Festival , and theVienna Festival )
* "Entführung im Konzerstaall " ("Kidnapping in the Concert Hall") (by Maurice Kagel,Teatro La Fenice inVenice , premier)
* "Don Carlo " (1998, Salzburg Festival)
* "I vespri siciliani " (1998,Vienna State Opera )
* "Giulio Cesare " (1998, Theater Basel, Liceu Barcelona)
* "Palestrina " (1999, Vienna State Opera)
* "Les Troyens " (2000, Salzburg Festival)
* "Actus Tragicus " (Bach ) (December 2000, Theater Basel, 2006/07 at Stuttgart State Opera)
* "Die Frau ohne Schatten " (December 2001,Metropolitan Opera )
* "Das Rheingold " (2002, Bavarian State Opera)
* "Die Walküre " (draft, 2002, Bavarian State Opera; Wernicke died 4 weeks before starting rehearsals)
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