Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt

The Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera House) is an important European opera house, the home of Oper Frankfurt (the Frankfurt Opera), a leading company in Germany. In 2005/2006 it had twelve premieres, a number that no opera house in Europe has equalled. In 1997 and 2003 the house received the title "Opera house of the year".

Many famous singers started their career with the company (e. g. Franz Völker, Edda Moser, Cheryl Studer and Diana Damrau) and it attracts established singers such as Christian Gerhaher who appeared in Monteverdi's Orfeo, Piotr Beczala in Massenet's Werther and Jan-Hendrik Rootering in Wagner's Parsifal. The company is made up of accomplished singers like Johannes Martin Kränzle, Juanita Lascarro, Stuart Skelton, etc.

Musical Director is Paolo Carignani and the Director is Bernd Loebe

Impresario

Opera

• since 2002 Impresario: Bernd Loebe
• from 2008 Sebastian Weigle (Musical Director)
• 1999-2008 Paolo Carignani (Musical Director)
• 1997-2002 Impresario: Martin Steinhoff
• 1993-1997 Sylvain Cambreling
• 1987-1991 Gary Bertini
• 1977-1987 Michael Gielen (Generalmusicaldirector and Impresario)
• 1967-1977 Christoph von Dohnányi (Generalmusicaldirector and Impresario)
• 1961-1966 Lovro von Matačić (Generalmusicaldirector and Impresario)
• 1952-1961 Sir Georg Solti (Generalmusicaldirector and Impresario)
• 1945-1951 Bruno Vondenhoff (Generalmusikdirektor)
• 1938-1944 Franz Konwitschny (Generalmusikdirektor)
• 1937-1938 Georg Ludwig Jochum
• 1935-1936 Karl Maria Zwißler
• 1933-1934 Bertil Wetzelsberger
• 1929-1933 Hans Wilhelm Steinberg
• 1924-1929 Clemens Krauss (Generalmusikdirektor)
• 1893-1924 Ludwig Rottenberg
• 1880-1892 Felix Otto Dessoff (Erster Kapellmeister)

Theatre

• since 2001 Elisabeth Schweeger
• Peter Eschberg 1991–2001
• Hans-Peter Doll 1990–1991
• Günther Rühle 1985–1990
• Adolf Dresen 1981–1985
• Wilfried Minks/Johannes Schaaf 1980–1981
• Peter Palitzsch 1972–1980
• Ulrich Erfurth 1968–1972
• Harry Buckwitz 1951–1968
• Richard Weichert/Heinz Hilpert 1947–1951
• Toni Impekoven 1945–1947
• Hans Meissner 1933–1944
• Alwin Kronbacher 1929–1933
• Richard Weichert 1920–1929
• Karl Zeiss 1916–1920
• Max Behrend 1912–1916
• Emil Claar 1879–1912

Awards

• 1995 and 2003 "Opera house of the year"

External links

• Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main GmbH
• Opera Frankfurt
• Theatre Frankfurt
• The Forsythe Company
• Frankfurt Baut Auf: Website on Frankfurt Post-war Reconstruction: Theatre history
• Frankfurt Baut Auf: Website on Frankfurt Post-war Reconstruction: Opera house rebuilding