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Harry Kupfer
German opera director (1935-2019) · Germany · On the map · Directors · Died at 84
Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer was a German opera director and academic. A long-time director at the Komische Oper Berlin, he worked at major opera houses and at festivals internationally. Trained by Walter Felsenstein, he worked in the tradition of realistic directing.
Harry Kupfer is read about 25 times a day, in 12 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 23 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Plácido Domingo GalaFilm, 2019Director
Verdi: MacbethFilm, 2019Director2018
MacbethFilm, Director2014
Strauss: Der RosenkavalierFilm, Director1994Berliner BärAward1993Frankfurter MusikpreisAward1992
ElisabethFilm, Director
ParsifalFilm, 1992Director
The Ring Cycle: Die WalkureFilm, 1992Director1991
Orfeo Ed EuridiceFilm, Director
The Ring Cycle: Das RheingoldFilm, 1991Director
The Ring Cycle: GotterdammerungFilm, 1991Director1989
Die SoldatenFilm, Director
ElektraFilm, 1989Director1985
Der fliegende HolländerFilm, Director1935Born12 August 1935People around Harry
Close ties
Birgitta Svendén Also in The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold (1991)
Waltraud Meier Also in The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung (1991)- Anne Evans Also in The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung (1991)
John Tomlinson Also in The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold (1991)- Graham Clark Also in Der fliegende Holländer (1985)
Markus Werba Harry directed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Filmography 13
19 credits on file
Awards
About this person
At the Bayreuth Festival, he staged Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer in 1978 and Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1988. At the Salzburg Festival, he directed the premiere of Penderecki's Die schwarze Maske in 1986 and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in 2014.
