Christine Mielitz, portrait by Oliver Mark, Berlin 2015
Christine Mielitz (born 23 November 1949) is a German theatre and opera director. [1]
Christine Mielitz (born 23 November 1949) is a German theatre and opera director. [1]
Born in Chemnitz, Mielitz was the daughter of a Chemnitz concert master and therefore came into contact with music theatre at an early age. After finishing school, she studied opera directing with Götz Friedrich and Hans-Jochen Irmer at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in East-Berlin from 1968 to 1972.
In the course of her studies Mielitz completed an internship with Harry Kupfer at the Dresden State Opera, which initially led to work as an assistant to Kupfers from 1973 and where she became a director from 1980. In the same year Verdi's Nabucco premiered in Wuppertal was her first own production. From 1982 she acted at the Dresdner Staatsoper as head director.
In 1989 she was engaged as a director at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she also took over as head director in 1992. From 1998 to 2002 she was artistic director of the Meiningen Court Theatre. In Meiningen she achieved a great international success with the first performance of the Der Ring des Nibelungen on four consecutive days, as Wagner always wished.
From 2002 to 2010 Mielitz was opera director of the Theater Dortmund. Since then she has worked as a guest director at the Vienna State Opera and the Dresden State Opera. [2]
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