Reinhard Linden (born 1957 in Ingelheim am Rhein) is a German opera director. Since the season 2006/2007 he has worked in this capacity at the Kiel Opera House.
A trained church musician, he previously served as a coach, tutor, conductor and singer. Linden has experience at La Scala, Paris Opera, as a coach in New York City and Vienna, and in teaching in the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt. He was at the Wuppertal Opera and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein study leader from 2004-2006. He was also an artistic advisor at National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center in Taipei, Taiwan, where he overlooked the first performance of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the Chinese-speaking world. [1]
Michael Andreas Gielen was an Austrian conductor and composer who promoted contemporary music in opera and concert.
Markus Anfang is a German retired footballer and manager of SV Darmstadt.
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its Music Director since 2009. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play both opera and symphonic repertoire.
Die tödlichen Wünsche, Op. 27, is an opera by Giselher Klebe who also wrote the libretto based on La Peau de chagrin by Honoré de Balzac. It consists of fifteen lyrical scenes in three acts. It premiered on 14 June 1959 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, conducted by Reinhard Peters, and was published by Boosey & Hawkes. The opera was revived in 2006 at the Landestheater Detmold on the occasion of the composer's 80th birthday.
Niklas Landin Jacobsen is a Danish handballer for THW Kiel and the Danish national team.
Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF Champions League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP Arena, with a seating capacity of 14,500.
The Cologne Opera refers both to the main opera house in Cologne, Germany and to its resident opera company.
Elisabeth Mohn is a German billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist.
Peter Vollmann is a German former football player and manager who last managed VfR Aalen. As a player, he spent one season in the 2. Bundesliga with Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid.
Arnold Rutkowski is a Polish opera singer who has sung leading tenor roles both in his native country and abroad. He is best known for his performances as Don Josè in Carmen, Rodolfo in La bohème, Alfredo Germont in La traviata, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, and Lt. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.
Michael Leinert is a well-known stage director, dramaturg, editor and author. His father, Friedrich Leinert was a respected composer, conductor and Professor of Music in Hannover; Michael Leinert's mother was an operatic and concert singer.
Theater Kiel is a theatre company in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is jointly funded by the city and the state. The company produces opera, musical, ballet, plays, and theatre for youth and children, in three different buildings: the Opernhaus, the Schauspielhaus, and the Theater im Werftpark.
Dan Ettinger is an Israeli conductor, opera singer and pianist.
Axel Kober is a German conductor. Since 2009 he has been the Music Director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen is a Danish retired handball player and current coach of the Danish national team.
Reinhard Peters was a German operatic conductor, violinist and an academic teacher at the Folkwangschule Essen. He was the Generalmusikdirektor for the opera companies Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater Münster and Deutsche Oper Berlin. He premiered music in opera and concert, such as Giselher Klebe's Die tödlichen Wünsche, Aribert Reimann's Melusine, Nicolas Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle Tre Canti di Leopardi.
Lukas Hemleb is a German director of plays and operas, scenic designer, and librettist.
Christof Loy is a German stage director especially for opera, whose work received several awards. A freelance director, he has staged operas from Baroque to premieres of new works at major European opera houses and festivals. He is known for directing works by Mozart.
Herbert Doussant was an American operatic tenor. He sang at major opera houses in Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and German repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.
Ulrich Windfuhr is a German conductor.