email: christian
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Christian Sedelmayer has worked as Juergen Roses assistant for the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth and at Munich´s Kammerspiele at 23, before starting his own career as a set and costume designer.
As a set and costume designer he worked with many German stage directors like Christian Stueckl, Stephan Bachmann, Sebastian Baumgarten, Lars Ole Walburg, the movie director and opera debutant Doris Dörrie, the Geschwister Pfister Group and well known conductors such as Daniel Baremboim and Cornelius Meister.
He has won various awards, such as Vienna´s Kainz Medal for best upcoming stage designer, Best Opera Costume Designer 2001, or Germany´s Show Industry´s Award for Best Stage Design 2002.
In 2000 Christian Sedelmayer started his exclusive work as a stage director, always in his own set designs. His work focuses especially on opera.
He has staged operas for the Staatstheater am Gaertnerplatz in Munich, the Opera de Rouen, the Staatstheater Meiningen, Theater Freiburg, Luzerner Theater, Theater Aachen, the Berliner Sophiensaele and Bar Jeder Vernunft, at the Theater Heidelberg, now for the Salzburger Landestheater and others.
His opera repertoire includes Bizet, Mozart, Verdi, Purcell, etc.
He speaks exellent English, French, and Italian, next to his mother language German.
1965 | born in Munich, Germany |
Schools: Ballet Accademy Munich, Fashion School Paris, Fine Arts Rome | |
Languages: German, English, Italian, French | |
1990-92 | Assistant of Juergen Rose, Kammerspiele Munich |
and for THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, Bayreuth Festival 1991 | |
works: | |
1992 | VOLKSVERNICHTUNG ODER MEINE LEBER IST SINNLOS (first show) |
sets+costumes, Kammerspiele Munich | |
1992 | --->chosen for BERLINER THEATERTREFFEN FESTIVAL 1992 |
1993 | CHICAGO-TASCHKENT sets+costumes, Tanztendenz Munich |
PLAYING WITH THE FIRE sets+costumes,Ritterwerke Munich | |
1994 | ANDREJ sets+costumes, Tanztendenz Munich |
1995 | PLAY OF LOVE AND CHANCE sets+costumes, Teamtheater Munich |
EDWARD II sets+costumes, Kammerspiele Munich | |
1995 | QUAI WEST sets+costumes, Kammerspiele Munich |
1996 | OIDIPUS costumes, Theater Affekt Berlin |
PENTHESILEA costumes, Theater Affekt Berlin | |
HAUPTSTADTREVUE sets+costumes, Neukoelln Opera Berlin | |
DYSMORPHOMANIE sets+costumes,, Schauspielhaus Vienna | |
KAINZMEDAILLE AWARD OF VIENNA for sets+costumes of DYSMORPHOMANIE | |
1997 | DER REIZENDE REIGEN sets+costumes,, Schauspielhaus Vienna |
TRIUMPH OF SENSIBILITY costumes, Volksbühne Berlin | |
1998 | ITHAKA sets+costumes, Schauspiel Frankfurt |
WAITRESSES first own direction, Bar Jeder Vernunft Berlin | |
SERGEJ sets+costumes, Steirischer Herbst (first show) | |
1999 | SNOWHITE sets+costumes, Die Geschwister Pfister, Hebbel Theater Berlin |
DIDO AND AENEAS direction+sets, Opera de Rouen | |
THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO sets+costumes,Staatstheater Cottbus | |
DIE AEHNLICHEN sets+costumes, Schauspiel Frankfurt | |
2000 | SOAP TOTAL, idea+direction, Sophiensaele Berlin |
ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE direction+sets, Neumarkttheater Zurich | |
2001 | COSI FAN TUTTE sets+costumes(directed by D.Doerrie,conducted by Baremboim) Staatsoper u.d. Linden Berlin |
AWARD"BEST COSTUME 2001", Opernwelt (COSI...) | |
OPUS-AWARD FOR BEST STAGE DESIGN 2001 (COSI...) | |
2002 | TITUS ANDRONICUS sets+costumes, Volkstheater Munich (opening) |
CARMEN, direction+sets,Luzerner Theater | |
2003 | THE ROBBERS, sets+costumes, Volkstheater Munich |
THE MERRY WIDOW direction+sets, Das Meininger Theater | |
2004 | L`ELISIR D´AMORE direction+sets, Theater Freiburg |
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA direction+sets, Luzerner Theater | |
2005 | CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA+PAGLIACCI direction+sets, Staatsth.a.Gaertnerplatz Munich |
LA PERICHOLE direction+sets, Theater Aachen | |
2006 | THE AWAKENING OF SPRING direction+sets, Theater Aachen |
THE HYPOCHONDRIAC direction+sets, Theater Konstanz | |
2007 | THE BARTERED BRIDE direction+sets, Theater Freiburg |
2008 | LA CLEMENZA DI TITO, direction+sets, Theater Heidelberg |
IPHIGENIE AUF TAURIS, sets, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel | |
2009 | DADDY(World Premiere),sets+costumes, Bayer. Staatsschauspiel |
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Conception+sets, Landestheater Salzburg | |
LEERE STADT(world premiere), costumes, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel |