Köpfe in Bayern

A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

Kleiner Mann ganz groß

Derrick

Lampenfieber

Die Rückseite des Mondes

Bambi Awards

Lohengrin

The Magic Flute

Hänsel und Gretel

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Als wär's ein Stück von mir

Der Hausmeister

Der Prozeß gegen die neun von Catonsville

Der Selbstmörder

Der Rückfall

Das Attentat - L.D. Trotzki

Der schwarze Freitag

Der Kardinal von Spanien

Alle meine Söhne

Der Nachfolger

Alle Macht der Erde

Amphitryon

August Everding (German pronunciation: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈʔeːvɐdɪŋ]; 31 October 1928; Bottrop, Germany – 26 January 1999; Munich) was a German opera director and administrator.
He studied at the Universities of Bonn and Munich, where launching his career in the 1950s. He was a member of the Roman Catholic fraternity Katholischer Studentenverein Arminia Bonn. From 1968 onwards he worked as a director in Hamburg, before moving back to Munich in 1977 to become the General Intendant of the Bayerische Staatsoper. In the following years he also directed in Bayreuth, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Zurich Opera,
In 1988 the Prinzregententheater was renovated under his patronage and could be reopened as theatre and opera house. It also houses the Bavarian Theatre Academy.
His productions were seen in all the major international houses: Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival. the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, La Scala, Milan, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera New York City, San Francisco Opera, Victoria State Opera, and Opera Australia.
In the 1980s and 1990s he interviewed a great many famous opera singers on German television, including Hans Hotter, Carlo Bergonzi, Otto Edelmann, Anja Silja, Astrid Varnay, Ingeborg Hallstein, Gundula Janowitz, Karl Ridderbusch, Birgit Nilsson, Irmgard Seefried, Martha Mödl, Gustav Neidlinger, Hans Hopf, Hans Sotin, Franz Crass and Josef Greindl.  Many of these interviews can now be viewed on YouTube, in German.



August Everding