Harry Kupfer, who has died aged 84, was a towering figure in opera production with a career spanning 60 years. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A performance of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold at the Berlin Staatsoper, 1996, directed by Harry Kupfer. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Bertolt Brecht, staged by Harry Kupfer at the Dresden Semperoper, 2005. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/GettyFrom 1981 he was director of Komische Oper Berlin and professor at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler, also in Berlin. • Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer, opera director, born 12 August 1935; died 30 December 2019

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2020 16:52 UTC