Thierry Bruehl (born February 19, 1968, in Paris) is a French-German theatre, music theatre and film director. He is the director of the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival (Taschenopernfestival Salzburg),[1] and has staged numerous productions.[2] The Pocket Opera comes to Salzburg every two years. At the 2019 event he organized a production which included scenes from "Othello", "Richard III", "What You Want" and "Midsummer Night's Dream".[3] For the September 2021 event, Bruehl has arranged a production featuring Zeynep Gedizouglu, Iris ter Schiphorst, Fabio Nieder and Wolfgang Mitterer.[4]

Thierry Bruehl

In 2007, Bruehl directed 5 x Deutschland,[5] a short film in the form of five video clips featuring so-called socially disadvantaged young people from Aachen, Bremen, Dortmund, Munich and Magdeburg who answer questions about their background, goals and perspectives.[6]

In 2019, Bruhl was the theatrical director of the Zahir Ensemble production at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain. One critic highlighted his "sober but effective and conceptual staging".[7]

References

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  1. ^ Fiona Jane Schopf (24 January 2019). Music on Stage Volume III, Volume 3. Cambridge Scholars. p. 25. ISBN 9781527526952.
  2. ^ "Im Portrait: Thierry Bruehl" (in German). Klang 21. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Ein Abend im Shakespeare-Rausch" (in German). Krone.at. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Regisseur Thierry Brühl: "Hatten großes Glück!"" (in German). Krone.at. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  5. ^ Joachim Klose (3 February 2014). Heimatschichten: Anthropologische Grundlegung eines Weltverhältnisses (in German). Springer. p. 691. ISBN 9783658047405.
  6. ^ "5 x Deutschland" (in German). bpb.de. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  7. ^ "La Ópera y sus límites" (in Spanish). Diario de Sevilla. Retrieved 6 July 2020.