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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Klaus Zehelein
- Klaus Zehelein (born September 5, 1940) is a German dramaturge.
- He was president of the Munich Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding.
- Zehelein is also president of the association of German theaters, Deutscher Bühnenverein.
- For fifteen years, from 1991 until 2006, Zehelein was artistic director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
- Critic Gerhard Rohde, summing up Zehelein's theatre work at the Stuttgart opera, says "Zehelein does not view opera as a culinary phenomenon.
- For him opera is an extremely complex matter, where all arts – as well as social, philosophical, historic, utopic and other aspects – unite.
- This complexity of opera merits being perceived, being seen, being experienced; thus all works that end up performed on stage, are rigorously analyzed beforehand.
- He who says this results in thinned-out, merely sophisticated opera performances, missed out substantially in the Zehelein-Era in Stuttgart."
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