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Michael Leinert was born on 1942 in Germany, is an A german theatre director. Discover Michael Leinert's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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1942

Michael Leinert (born 1942 in Meldorf / Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a stage director, dramaturg, editor and author.

His father, Friedrich Leinert was a composer, conductor and professor of music in Hannover.

Leinert's mother was an operatic and concert singer.

Leinert studied music (Oboe) at the University for Music in Detmold, german literature and history of the arts at the University of Munich.

His teachers of drama and opera direction were August Everding, Heinz Arnold and Götz Friedrich.

1970

In 1970 he became a dramaturg and director for drama and opera at the Theater of Kiel.

Following this appointment, came further engagements as dramaturg and stage director at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the Hamburgische Staatsoper and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

Leinert was the artistic director of several Studios for Contemporary Experimental Music Theatre in Germany, for example in Kiel, where he was also the director of "Musica nova" (1970 - 1974); later in Braunschweig, Coburg, at the Hamburgische Staatsoper (Opera stabile), at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich (together with Walter Haupt) and in Bremen.

In Memphis, Tennessee, he founded together with his wife, Susan Owen-Leinert, the Chamber Opera of Memphis, a forum for contemporary Music Theater.

1979

He also performed experimental authors and modern music composers such as Mauricio Kagel (Presentation, Pas de cinq, Himmelsmechanik, etc.), John Cage (Theatre piece, 4:33), Bent Lorentzen (Perogolesi's Home Service, Fackeltanz), Wilfried Hiller (IJOB - world premiere at the Bavarian State Opera of Munich, Opera Festival 1979 with Lorenz Fehenberger, tenor), Hans - Joachim Hespos (Nachtvorstellung, world premiere 1986 in Bremen/Concordia), György Ligeti (Rondeau), Jörg Wyttenbach (Streichquartett), Manfred Trojahn, Dieter Schnebel (Nostalgie - Solo for conductor without an orchestra), Manfred Niehaus, Marc Neikrug (Through roses), Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans Jürgen von Bose (BLUTBUND, world premiere at Hamburgische Staatsoper).

Leinert translated Jean Sibelius' Maiden in the tower into the German language as well as Gaetano Donizetti's Il pazzi per progetto and Tom Johnson's The four note opera.

He has written and directed radio plays, opera libretti, and three musical plays for children.

His biography of the German Romantic Composer Carl Maria von Weber was published in the fifth edition by the Rowohlt Verlag (Serie Monografien) and has been translated into Swedish and Chinese.

He also published articles in various music magazines and wrote essays for the SPOHR JAHRBÜCHER (Stadt Braunschweig) and about Carl Maria von Weber and Carl Czerny for the Lexikon "Schriften über Musik" Vol. 2 (2023).

Together with Susan Owen-Leinert he founded the Spohr Society of the United States of America and edited the first complete and critical edition of Louis Spohr’s Lieder in 12 vols.

with the publisher Dohr in Cologne, Germany.

Leinert has taught as a guest professor of opera history and opera literature and drama at the universities of Bremen, Braunschweig, Hamburg and Munich.

At Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf he gave lessons in stage direction for the opera department.

He was one of the directors of the Memphis Opera & Song Academy at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, US, his wife's summer academy for singers.

1983

From 1983 to 1985 he was Oberspielleiter (stage director) at the Landestheater Coburg.

1985

In 1985 Leinert became the personal assistant of General-Intendant Tobias Richter at Theater Bremen.

1988

In 1988 he was appointed artistic director and general manager of Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and from 1991 to 1999 he was the artistic director and general manager of the Staatstheater Kassel.

1992

Leinert was the initiator of the First European Drama Award Competition (in connection with the art exhibition documenta IX in Kassel, 1992), promoted by Peter Ustinov and August Everding.

1994

For his stage direction of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the opera Halle he received a nomination in the magazine Opernwelt Year Book 1994/95 (Critic's inquiry) for his "expressive stage direction".

Leinert produced theatre plays, such as Friedrich Schiller's (Die Braut von Messina, Die Jungfrau von Orleans), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (Faust), Witold Gombrowicz (Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund), Jean Racine (Phaedra) and Molière.

His production of Nikolaj V. Koljada's monodrama Die Amerikanerin (The American woman) was premiered in Germany, Russia and in Greek translation at Skala Theater, Larnaca, Cyprus.

1997

Leinert directed Don Giovanni, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Staatstheater Kassel 1997–99), Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, Der Fliegende Holländer (Kassel, Aachen, Festival in Heidenheim, Ferrara, Parma, Padua, Palm Beach Opera / Florida), Wozzeck, Tosca, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Il tabarro, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, Rigoletto, Jenůfa, Sibelius': The Maiden in the Tower and Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini (First premiere in Germany), Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana and Ernst Krenek's Orpheus und Eurydike.

Leinert's stage direction of Ján Cikker's Das Erdbeben in Chile (First premiere in Germany. opera after the novel of Heinrich von Kleist) was rated "Best production of the month" by the opera magazine Orpheus International.

1999

In autumn 1999 Leinert started his position as Chefdramaturg and stage director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (until summer 2006).

2002

At Florida's Palm Beach Opera, Leinert directed Samson et Dalila, Richard Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer and Tannhäuser in 2002.

In 2002 he directed at the National Theatre of Cyprus in Nicosia the world premiere of the Greek translation of Goethe's FAUST by Nikos Kazantzakis.

At the chamber opera of Hamburg he directed Donizetti's Il Borgomastro di Saardam, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Giovanni Paisiello's Il barbiere di Siviglia and Wagner's Das Liebesverbot.

2005

He created and directed the first Cypriote opera Manoli by Vassos Arghyrides and Giorgos Neophytou, also the world premiere of Ingomar Gruenauer's Amleth und Fengo in Heidelberg and Jürg Baur's first chamber opera (Libretto: M. Leinert after Anton Chechov's The novel with the contrabass), in Düsseldorf, 2005.

2006

In March 2006 he produced the opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

2007

Since 2007 he lives with his wife, opera singer and teacher Susan Owen-Leinert in Memphis Tennessee.

Leinert directed plays and operas in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Russia, the United States and Cyprus.

In March 2007 he was the stage director oft the play Don Juan (play) by Molière with The Cyprus Theatre Organisation THOC in Nicosia.