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Gerd Uecker

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589: 33: 577: 390: 176:. In 1970 he received a teaching assignment for opera at the Rheinisches Musikkonservatorium in Cologne for musical theatre. In 1973 Uecker was appointed 269: 161: 261:, the artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera, and holding the position to 2010. He was chairman of the University Council of the 195:, and from September 1993 opera director, responsible for the management of the opera house in the Bavarian capital. He served to 2000. 467: 273: 244: 544: 304: 214:
active as director and stage designer, but both died unexpectedly before his tenure began. His focus was on the works by
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from the 2003/04 season. He managed the house in a period of recovery after flood damage in 2002. He had counted on
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Beständig ist nur der Wandel: Über-Regionale Ermunterungen aus der Semperoper – Intendanz Gerd Uecker 2003–2010
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In January 2000, Uecker was given the task by the Minister of State for Science and the Arts in Saxony,
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who had enjoyed several world premieres there and other works related to Dresden, including Hasse's
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in Munich, where he held the position of a director if the department of music. In 1988 he became
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and at the Dresden Academy of Music, among others. From 2011 he was Honorary Chairman of the
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From 2005 Uecker was chairman of the German-speaking Opera Conference, succeeding Sir
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Uecker taught in Venice, Beijing and Stuttgart and was honorary professor at the
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and head of the opera department of the Südostbayerischen Städtetheater in
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in Munich, and from 2003 to 2010 he directed in the same position the
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Traumberuf Opernsänger: Von der Ausbildung zum Engagement
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on 15 September 1946, the son of a physician. After his
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and a music and opera manager. From 1993 to 2000 he was
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Bespectacled, clean-shaven man, in animated pose, in his 60s, with receding hairline, and white hair cut very short.
Munich
Artistic director
Bavarian State Opera
Semperoper
music teacher
artistic director
Bavarian State Opera
Semperoper
Munich
Abitur
Gisela Gymnasium
music education
conducting
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
repetiteur
Cologne Opera
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
music director
Passau
Bavarian State Opera
artistic director
Hans Joachim Meyer
Semperoper
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Herbert Wernicke
Richard Strauss
Cleofide
Euryanthe
Penthesilea

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