Daniela Kerck
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Daniela Kerck is a German scenic designer and stage director who has worked internationally. She directed and created the stage for Jörg Widmann's opera Babylon that opened the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in 2022
Life and career[edit]
Kerck studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Erich Wonder.[1] Her thesis was titled "Every Room is the Centre of the World". She worked as Wonder's assistant at the Zürich Opera House, the Berlin State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, among others.[2] She made scenic designs for the Schauspielhaus Wien, the Latvian National Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Teatro Zarzuela in Madrid.[1] She recreated the scenic design by Wonder for Salome by Richard Strauss, directed by Luc Bondy, for a production at the Volksoper in Vienna in 2023 that had first been presented at the Salzburg Festival, later also at La Scala in Milan.[3]
Kerck studied music theatre direction at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe[1] with Andrea Raabe and Stephan Mösch, and attended master classes with Peter Konwitschny and Tatjana Gürbaca.[2] She worked as assistant director to Johannes Schaaf at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera and the Aalto Theatre in Essen.[2] She directed Verdi's Aida at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl in 2019.[1]
She directed and created sets for several performances at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, both plays such as Joshua Harmon's Admissions and The Minutes by Tracy Letts, and opera. She created Jörg Widmann's Babylon for the opening performance of 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden[2] and Dvořák's Rusalka in collaboration with soprano Olesya Golovneva.[2][4] Her work for the world premiere of Søren Nils Eichberg's Oryx and Crake based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, was nominated for the International Opera Awards.[5][6] She directed Puccini's Turandot in her sets for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele, conducted by Yoel Gamzou.[2] When Puccini died in 1924, he had not yet set the happy ending of the libretto to music. Kerck decided to use none of the three available completions of Puccini's opera. Her ending used instead the beginning of a Requiem that Puccini had composed earlier.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Schnakenberg, Petra (2020). "Interview mit Daniela Kerck". Les nouveaux riches (interview) (in German). Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f "Daniela Kerck". Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.[promotional source?][better source needed]
- ^ "Salome". Volksoper. 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ Sternburg, Judith von (28 January 2023). ""Rusalka" in Wiesbaden: Der Alptraum der Nixe". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "Wiesbadener Oper für internationale Auszeichnung nominiert". Hochheimer Zeitung (in German). 12 October 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ "Daniela Kerck bei den International Opera Awards" (in German). Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2024.[promotional source?][better source needed]
- ^ Uske, Bernhard (14 April 2024). ""Turandot" in Wiesbaden – Keine Hochzeit und kein Jubel". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ Franke, Christiane (April 2024). "Der Todeskuss". magazin.klassik.com (in German). Retrieved 29 February 2024.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Daniela Kerck / Stage director Set designer Operabase
- Oryx and Crake - Søren Nils Eichberg theater-tv.net