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The Dutch opera stage director / set designer Michiel Dijkema studied
classical piano at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam with Danièle
Dechenne and at the Utrecht School of Arts with Alexander
Warenberg and Alwin Bär. Subsequently he studied opera stage
directing at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler”
Berlin. He was active as a song accompanist and studied interpretation
of song with Thom Bollen in Utrecht and with Wolfram Rieger in Berlin.
During his study Michiel Dijkema staged student productions in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Berlin. Since 2005 he directed / designed Pelléas
et Mélisande by Debussy and Orfeo ed Euridice
by Gluck for the Dutch National Touring Opera (Nationale Reisopera), Carmen
by Bizet for the German Landestheater Eisenach and
Staatstheater Meiningen, Ascanio in Alba by
Mozart for the ArtEZ School of Arts, Egmont
by Beethoven / Goethe for the Gergiev Festival Rotterdam,
La Cenerentola by Rossini for the Estonian
National Opera Tallinn, in France Berlin-Broadway
for Les Dominicains de Haute-Alsace, in Sweden
L'Orfeo by Monteverdi for Drottningholms Slottsteater
Stockholm, Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg
for the Gergiev Festival Rotterdam, Cabaret
by Kander for the Landestheater Mecklenburg, Die
Fledermaus by Strauss for the Landestheater Eisenach,
Der Vampyr by Marschner for the Grachtenfestival
Amsterdam, La Périchole by Offenbach
for the State Operetta Dresden, Die Fledermaus
by Strauss for the Novaya Opera Moscow, Il Turco
in Italia by Rossini for the Oper Leipzig, Die
Zauberflöte by Mozart for the Musiktheater im Revier
Gelsenkirchen, La Cenerentola by Rossini for the Dutch National Touring Opera (Nationale Reisopera), Die Fledermaus by Strauss for the Estonian National Opera Tallinn, Hänsel und Gretel for the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Offenbach for the State Operetta Dresden, Tosca by Puccini for the Oper Leipzig and Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas for the Croatian National Opera Zagreb.
Michiel Dijkema won several international
opera directing prizes: the second European Opera-directing
Prize 2005, the first Peter-Konwitschny-Nachwuchsregiepreis for his concept of Carmen (Landestheater Eisenach)
and in 2007 the Eesti Teatrikunsti Muusikalavastuste Award for his production of La Cenerentola (Estonian
National Opera). This award is the most important Estonian music-theatre
prize. On 8 June 2011 the set design of Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Staatstheater Wiesbaden) won the first Wizard-Award 2011 in Berlin.
Among his future engagements are productions for the Staatsoper Hannover, for the Staatstheater Darmstadt, for the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, for the Theater an der Wien and for the Oper Leipzig.
Michiel Dijkema lives in Amsterdam. He rode on his bicycle from Amsterdam to Rome, Santiago de Compostella, Venice, Vienna, London, Barcelona, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and other destinations.
Links:
Nationale
Reisopera Enschede
Landestheater
Eisenach
Südthüringisches
Staatstheater Meiningen
Estonian National
Opera Tallinn
Drottningholms Slottsteater Stockholm
Nieuwe Luxortheater Rotterdam
De Doelen
Rotterdam
Les Dominicains de
Haute-Alsace
Landestheater
Mecklenburg
Staatsoperette Dresden
Novaya Opera Moscow
Oper Leipzig
Musiktheater
im Revier Gelsenkirchen
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Croatian National Opera Zagreb
Staatsoper Hannover
Staatstheater Darmstadt
Enschede
Music Festival
Gergiev Festival Rotterdam
Grachtenfestival Amsterdam
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam
Wizard Award
Camerata
Nuova
Opera
Europa
European Opera
Days
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Domestica Rotterdam
The Netherlands Symphony
Orchestra
Academy of Music
„Hanns Eisler“ Berlin
Utrecht School
of Arts
ArtEZ School
of Arts / Conservatory Enschede |
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