Musical theatre | Scene
Where music becomes action – and scene becomes art
Scenic work in musical theatre forms the core of the programme. Here, singing, acting, body and space merge into a living unity. From the very beginning, the focus is on real roles: characters are developed, situations are created, musical structures are dramatically permeated. Music is not only sung – it is embodied.
Working under real conditions
In the studio theatre with 150 seats, modern stage technology and an orchestra pit, productions are created under professional theatre conditions: with lighting, costumes, make-up, technology and an audience. Students are part of an overall artistic process and experience how musical theatre is created through the interaction of all disciplines.
Practice as an artistic school
Every production demands expressiveness, precision and teamwork. Scenic rehearsals, musical rehearsals and physical presence intertwine to form an independent stage personality.
Goal
The development of expression, presence and authenticity. An individual scenic-musical language emerges – supported by artistic attitude and growing professional maturity.
Contact
Jochen Biganzoli
Professor for Music Theatre/Scene
Head of Music Theatre/Scene
Beethovenhaus Belvedere
Jochen Biganzoli has been working as a freelance opera director since 1999 at national and international venues, including the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Hamburg State Opera, the Theater Lübeck, the Meiningen State Theatre, the Augsburg State Theatre, the Halle Opera, and the Leipzig Opera. The Thuringian theaters in Altenburg, Gera, Eisenach, and Meiningen have also always been part of his career.
In 2013, he received the Rolf Mares Prize in the category “Outstanding Production” for his staging of “The Master and Margarita” at the Hamburg State Opera. For his “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” at Theater Lübeck, he was nominated in 2016 for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST in the category “Best Direction of Musical Theater.” His production “Der ferne Klang” (Theater Lübeck) was highlighted in the 2018 season review of the magazine “Die Deutsche Bühne” for “Stage/Space/Costumes”; his “Freischütz” (Theater Lübeck) was nominated in the 2018/2019 yearbook of “Opernwelt” in the category “Best Performance.”
With his “radically conceived and astonishingly coherent” production of “Tristan und Isolde” in 2019 at Theater Hagen, Jochen Biganzoli was honored in the “Die Deutsche Bühne” authors’ survey as an “outstanding directorial contribution to the current development of opera” and was also once again nominated for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST.
His most recent works include “Die tote Stadt” and “The Wreckers” at the Staatstheater Meiningen, “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” at the Staatstheater Augsburg, and “Euridice” at the German National Theater Weimar.
Jochen Biganzoli has extensive teaching experience at the University of the Arts Bremen, the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, and the University of Music and Dance Cologne.
Further information at www.biganzoli.de