Sigrid Neef Explained

Sigrid Neef (born 10 October 1944) is a German musicologist and theatre scholar, focused on Russian and Soviet opera. She has been a dramaturge of the director Ruth Berghaus at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin for decades.

Life

Born in Fraureuth, Neef worked at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin from 1972 to 1993. Like her husband, the musicologist Hermann Neef, she is an expert on Russian and Soviet music, with personal contact to Alfred Schnittke, Rodion Shchedrin, the Dmitri Shostakovich biographer Solomon Wolkow and the director-in-chief of the Bolshoi Theatre, Boris Pokrovsky. Since 1979, Neef has been the long-standing dramaturge of the director Ruth Berghaus, especially for opera.

Neef has translated numerous Russian and Hungarian operas, for example Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila together with Jörg Leipold, and works by Shostakovich, Shchedrin, Kyrill Vokov, Gleb Sedelnikov, Igor Rogaljov, Gennady Banshchikov, and Sándor Balassa.

Later, Neef focused on the field of animal protection, especially of cats.

Publications

Articles, book contributions

In Russian language

Radio broadcasts to and with Ruth Berghaus

Literature

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883464975 Handbuch der russischen und sowjetischen Oper
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/633566540 Das Theater der Ruth Berghaus
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75135214 Paul Dessaus Beitrag zu einem neuen Operntypus.
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/902465329 Deutsche Oper im 20. Jahrhundert DDR 1949–1989
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470908831 Die Opern Sergej Prokofjews
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244068121 Die Opern Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakows
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/762425181 Die Opern Dmitri Schostakowitschs
  8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434258834 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow, Zugänge zu Leben und Werk. Monographien – Schriften – Tagebücher- Verzeichnisse
  9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/605183874 Die Streichquartette als Tagebuch innerer Entwicklung (Überblick und Stationen)
  10. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606978418 "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuyle" : Jüdisches und Antisemitisches in der russischen Musikkultur : ein internationales Symposium = Jewish and anti-Semitic elements of Russian musical culture : an international symposium
  11. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/695669827 Regie : Ruth Berghaus : Geschichten aus der Produktion
  12. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889710733 Oper als Aufführung : neue Perspektiven auf Opernanalyse