Harry Kupfer

Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer (12 August 1935 – 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic. A long-time director at the Komische Oper Berlin, he worked at major opera houses and at festivals internationally. Trained by Walter Felsenstein, he worked in the tradition of realistic directing. At the Bayreuth Festival, he staged Wagner's ''Der fliegende Holländer'' in 1978 and ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' in 1988. At the Salzburg Festival, he directed the premiere of Penderecki's ''Die schwarze Maske'' in 1986 and ''Der Rosenkavalier'' by Richard Strauss in 2014. Provided by Wikipedia