Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer was a German opera director and academic.
16 Facts About Harry Kupfer
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Harry Kupfer was the assistant director at the Landestheater Halle, where he directed his first opera, Dvorak's Rusalka, in 1958.
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Harry Kupfer was opera director at the Staatsoper Dresden from 1972 to 1982.
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Harry Kupfer was from 1977 professor at the Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
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Harry Kupfer staged the story in a psychological interpretation as the heroine Senta's imaginations and obsessions.
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Harry Kupfer was chief director at the Komische Oper Berlin from 1981, a protege of Walter Felsenstein.
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Harry Kupfer staged there Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in 1981, Puccini's La Boheme in 1982, Reimann's Lear, Verdi's Rigoletto and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in 1983, among many others.
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Harry Kupfer directed there the premiere of Judith by Siegfried Matthus.
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Harry Kupfer staged the GDR premiere of Schonberg's Moses und Aron there, conducted by Kurz in 1975.
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Harry Kupfer co-wrote the libretto with composer Krzysztof Penderecki of Penderecki's opera Die schwarze Maske.
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Harry Kupfer directed the 1986 world premiere production in Salzburg and the US premiere production at the Santa Fe Opera in 1988.
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Harry Kupfer and his wife, the music teacher and soprano Marianne Fischer-Harry Kupfer, had a daughter, Kristiane, who is an actress.
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Harry Kupfer worked in the tradition of realistic directing, as developed by Walter Felsenstein and practised especially at the Komische Oper Berlin.
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Harry Kupfer always worked individually with the singers, including the choir members, requesting talent for acting and rendering credibility to the actions.
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Harry Kupfer supported Giorgio Strehler's belief in a "human theatre".
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Harry Kupfer was a member of the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, the Freie Akademie der Kunste in Hamburg, and the Sachsische Akademie der Kunste in Dresden.