Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today’s musical theater in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. As a highly sensitive observer, she looks out over the on-stage activity, uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments. Barrie Kosky: “I have often observed Monika at work through the corner of my eye as I sit behind the production desk … She seems to sense the inner world of a moment and to know at exactly the right moment when to click her camera.” In her highly stringent visual compositions, Rittershaus depicts in a personalized and decisive way many influential directors and operas such as:
\nDAS RHEINGOLD, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Opera (2009), director: Achim Freyer
\nCOSI FAN TUTTE, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburger Festspiele (2020), director: Christof Loy
\nTANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (2019), director: Christof Loy
\nCARMEN, Georges Bizet, Oper Frankfurt (2016), director: Barrie Kosky
\nSALOME, Richard Strauss, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (2021), director: Claus Guth
\nELEKTRA, Richard Strauss, Staatsoper Hamburg (2022), director: Dmitri Tcherniakov
\nIPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opernhaus Zurich (2020), director: Andreas Homoki
\nCENDRILLON, Jules Massenet, Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2022), director: Mariame Clément<\/p>\n
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Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring and sensitive interpreter of today’s musical theater in all its opulence, drama, human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. Text in English and German.
Iris Maria vom Hof
\nWHAT IS OPERA’S STATUS TODAY?
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\nBarrie Kosky
\nTHE THEATRE‘S BUTTERFLY HUNTER
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\nPHOTOGRAPHS BY | FOROGRAFIEN VON
\nMONIKA RITTERSHAUS
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\nDirk Allgaier
\nON HAPPINESS AND OUR HEARTS‘ DESIRE IN THE CAVE
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\nSHORT BIOGRAPHIES
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\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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\nGLOSSARY
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