Nikolaus lehnhoff biography of christopher

          His entry is an invasion, an impulse of nature into a decadent and dead world, whose rituals have become meaningless and where all missionary consciousness has....

          Nikolaus Lehnhoff

          Nikolaus Lehnhoff (20 May 1939 in Hanover – 29 August 2015 in Berlin) was a German opera director.

          A documentary about Wagner's last opera - and one of his greatest masterpieces - Parsifal.

        1. Nikolaus Lehnhoff's visionary staging of this emotionally charged opera reveals a masterpiece of existential drama about human existence.
        2. His entry is an invasion, an impulse of nature into a decadent and dead world, whose rituals have become meaningless and where all missionary consciousness has.
        3. Production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff was a great success in opera houses around the Christopher Ventris and Waltraud Meier lead an inspired.
        4. The musicologist Christopher Hailey, who has long campaigned for a Schreker revival, observes that the operas work best if they are done in the highest.

          5. Life and career

          Born in Hanover to Erika (née Fiediger) and Friedrich Lehnhoff, Lehnhoff studied at the University of Munich and the University of Vienna.[1] Lehnhoff began his career working as a stage director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and as an assistant to Wieland Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival in the 1960s.

          He then became a stage director for the Metropolitan Opera, beginning with the 1967 revival of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. He served as stage director for several more Met productions through 1970, including Ariadne auf Naxos, La bohème, The Flying Dutchman, and Simon Boccanegra.[2]

          In 1972 Lehnhoff directed his first opera; a production of Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Paris Opera with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry.

          He directed that same work for his directorial debut at the San Francisco Opera (SF