Roland Schwab
Biography
Stage director Roland Schwab studied music theatre direction at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg under Professor Götz Friedrich. During his studies, he has assisted at a number of institutions, including the Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper and Oper Zürich with Professors Renate Ackermann, Götz Friedrich, Harry Kupfer and Ruth Berghaus. In 1997, he made a stage project Frank Alert meets Brecht in the Berliner Ensemble. After graduating in Hamburg, he was assistant to Christine Mielitz at the Meininger Theater from 1998, where he became chief director in 2002. At this theatre he staged two Mozart productions, Così fan tutte (2001) and Le nozze di Figaro (2002). In the following years he was guest director at Theater Münster (Offenbach: La Vie parisienne), Theater Freiburg (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor), Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette), Musiktheater im Revier (Verdi: Aida; German premiere of Isaac Albéniz's Merlin), Opera Bergen (Puccini: Turandot), Theater Gera (Massenet: Werther), Landestheater Linz (Massenet: Manon, Poulenc: Les Dialogues des Carmélites), Anhaltisches Theater Dessau (Verdi: Un ballo in maschera), Theater Augsburg (Mozart: La finta giardiniera), Oper Bonn (Bellini: La sonnambula), Oper Dortmund (Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress), at the Staatstheater Braunschweig (Vivaldi: Farnace; Puccini: Tosca), at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken (Rossini: Guillaume Tell) and at the International Brucknerfest Linz 2014 (Braunfels: Ulenspiegel). He staged Vivaldi's Orlando furioso and Handel's Orlando at the Niederbayerisches Landestheater and Theater Biel Solothurn. For the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, he realized the project Mozartfragmente (as part of the Mozart Year 2006), and staged d’Albert‘s Tiefland (2007) and Mozart‘s Don Giovanni (2010). At the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich he staged Boito‘s Mefistofele (2015) and at the Aalto-Theater Essen Verdi‘s Otello (2019).