Olivier Tambosi (born 7 July 1963) is an Austrian opera and operetta director.

Life and career

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Born in Paris, Tambosi studied music theatre direction at the University of Vienna. Philosophy and Theology, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

In 1990, he founded the Neue Oper Wien (artistic director until 1993). Subsequently, he was head of musical theatre at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt until 1996. Since 1996 he has made guest appearances internationally as a director and has worked among others with conductors Philippe Auguin, John Axelrod, Bruno Bartoletti, Jiří Bělohlávek, Dietfried Bernet, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Carignani, Frédéric Chaslin, James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies, Mark Elder, Mikko Franck, Bernard Haitink, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Jurowski, Karen Kamensek, Peter Keuschnig, Axel Kober, Walter Kobéra, Nicola Luisotti, Jun Märkl, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Donald Runnicles, Peter Schneider, Patrick Summers, Alexander Soddy.[1][2]

Among the singers Tambosi has worked with are Marcelo Álvarez, Daniela Barcellona, Joseph Calleja, Barbara Frittoli, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Lucio Gallo, Vladimir Galouzin, Eric Halfvarsson, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Angelika Kirchschlager, Éva Marton, Karita Mattila, Deborah Polaski, Neil Shicoff, Anja Silja, Nina Stemme, Bryn Terfel, Ramón Vargas, Christopher Ventris, Linda Watson and Eva-Maria Westbroek.[3][4]

His engagements have taken him in Austria among others to the Graz Opera, the Landestheater Linz, the Vienna Volksoper and the Bregenz Festival, in Germany to the Staatsoper Hannover, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, in Europe at the Liceu Barcelona, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, National Opera Helsinki, the Strasbourg Opera and to the Lucerne Festival, the Theater Biel Solothurn, in America to the Metropolitan Opera New York, to Chicago, Houston, San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles, San Diego Opera as well as to the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan.[5][6]

Tambosi is married with the Swiss soprano Christiane Boesiger (born 1966 in Zürich).

Mises en scene

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Henry Purcell

Georg Philipp Telemann

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Joseph Haydn

Antonio Salieri

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Luigi Cherubini

Gaetano Donizetti

Richard Wagner

Giuseppe Verdi

Jacques Offenbach

Johann Strauss II

Georges Bizet

Franco Faccio

Arrigo Boito

Carl Millöcker

Engelbert Humperdinck

Oscar Wilde

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Giacomo Puccini

Pietro Mascagni

Leoš Janáček

Claude Debussy

Richard Strauss

Franz Lehár

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Weill

  • Cabaret Songs

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Franz Schreker

Alban Berg

Emmerich Kálmán

Eduard Künneke

Igor Stravinsky

Darius Milhaud

Francis Poulenc

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Gian Carlo Menotti

Benjamin Britten

Astor Piazzolla

Mitch Leigh/Dale Wasserman

Stephen Sondheim

Dieter Kaufmann

  • Die Reise ins Paradies
  • Dolores

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Bruno Strobl

  • Hier ist es schön

Kaija Saariaho

Zesses Seglias

Sehyung Kim

  • Consumnia

References

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  1. ^ Olivier Tambosi on Ôlyrix
  2. ^ Olivier Tambosi on Gaertnerplatztheater
  3. ^ Olivier Tambosi on Operabase
  4. ^ Tambosi, Olivier on Forum Opera
  5. ^ Olivier Tambosi on OperaOnline
  6. ^ Olivier Tambosi on opera4u

Further reading

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  • Oswald Panagl: Tambosi, Olivier in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; Print edition: vol. 5, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften press, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8.