Hans-Peter Lehmann
Hans-Peter Lehmann (15 December 1934 – 5 February 2025) was a German opera and artistic director, the intendant of the Staatsoper Hannover from 1980 to 2001.
Life
[edit]Lehmann was born in Kassel on 15 December 1934,[1] the son of the sculptor Kurt Lehmann and an art historian.[2] In 1955, he passed his Abitur at the Waldorfschule in Hanover. He studied music, voice, flute and pantomime at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1955 to 1957, and studied further musicology, art history and theatre studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1957 to 1958.[3]
After his studies, Lehmann became assistant director of Carl Ebert and Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the new Deutsche Oper Berlin; he assisted Wieland Wagner and Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival between 1960 and 1973.[3] After the death of Wieland Wagner in 1966, he took care of his artistic legacy, in productions in Bayreuth and on tours to Italy, France, Japan and the US.[2] In 1970, he staged Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Bayerischen Staatsoper München, and in 1974 Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Nuremberg.[4] He worked as director also in Mainz, Ulm and Freiburg.[3]
From 1976 to 1980, Lehmann worked in his first leading position as opera director at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.[3][2] From 1980 to 2001, was opera director at the Staatsoper Hannover. He directed 31 productions during his tenure.[3] He remained to be invited as a guest, directing performances in Essen, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Basel, Milan, Paris, Veneceg and Chicago.[2] He became an honorary member of the Staatsoper Hannover.[2]
Lehmann was professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover a member of Kuratorium der Bürgerstiftung Hannover, inspiring the cultural development of the city.[2]
Lehmann died on 5 February 2025, at the age of 90.[3][5] He is regarded as one of the most influential leaders of the Staatsoper Hannover.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Roger Cericius: Hans-Peter Lehmann, in: 100 hannoversche Köpfe, published by von Tigo Zeyen and Anne Weber-Ploemacher, with photos by Joachim Giesel, Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X, p. 118.
- ^ a b c d e f "Professor Hans-Peter Lehmann". Staatsoper Hannover (in German). February 2025. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Staatsoper Hannover: Ehemaliger Intendant Lehmann tot". Musik heute (in German). 7 February 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
- ^ Wulf Konold: Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Der Komponist und sein Werk, DuMont, Köln 1986, ISBN 3-7701-1742-5, p. 52.
- ^ "German opera director died at 90".
Further reading
[edit]- Sabine Sonntag:[1] Danach trachtet mein Sinn. Die Ära Hans-Peter Lehmann an der Staatsoper Hannover 1980 bis 2001. With a tribute by Hanjo Kesting. Niedersächsische Staatstheater, Hannover 2001.
- Horst Seeger: Opern-Lexikon, 3., extended edition, extended new edition (Lizenzausgabe des Henschelverlages Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin. - Edition for the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (West), Austria and Switzerland), Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, 1987, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1
- Riemann Musiklexikon, Erg.-Vol. 2 (1975), p. 35
- Birte Vogel: Hans-Peter Lehmann. In Hannover persönlich. Seewind Verlag, Wennigsen 2011. ISBN 978-3-9814559-0-8, p. 122–138
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