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Hans-Peter Lehmann (born 15 December 1934)^[1] is a German opera and artistic director.

Life

Born in Kassel, Lehmann was born son of the sculptor Kurt Lehmann [de]^[2] and an art historian. In 1955, he passed his Abitur at the Waldorfschule [de] in Hanover. Afterwards he studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1955 to 1957 and completed from 1957 to 1958 a study of art history and theatre studies at the Free University of Berlin.

After his studies, Lehmann became assistant of Carl Ebert and Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and assisted Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival between 1960 and 1973. In 1970, he staged Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Bayerischen Staatsoper München, and in 1974 Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Nuremberg.^[3]

From 1976 to 1980, Lehmann worked as opera director at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and from 1980 to 2001, was opera director at the Staatsoper Hannover.^[4]

Sabine Sonntag:^[5] Danach trachtet mein Sinn. Die Ära Hans-Peter Lehmann an der Staatsoper Hannover 1980 bis 2001. With a tribute by Hanjo Kesting [de]. Niedersächsische Staatstheater, Hannover 2001.
Horst Seeger: Opern-Lexikon, 3., extended edition, extended new edition (Lizenzausgabe des Henschelverlages Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin. - Edition for the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (West), Austria and Switzerland), Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, 1987, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1
Roger Cericius [de]: Hans-Peter Lehmann, in 100 hannoversche Köpfe, published by Tigo Zeyen and Anne Weber-Ploemacher, with photos by Joachim Giesel [de], Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X, p. 118.
Riemann Musiklexikon, Erg.-Vol. 2 (1975), p. 35
Birte Vogel: Hans-Peter Lehmann. In Hannover persönlich. Seewind Verlag, Wennigsen 2011. ISBN 978-3-9814559-0-8, p. 122–138

^ Roger Cericius: Hans-Peter Lehmann, in: 100 hannoversche Köpfe, published by von Tigo Zeyen and Anne Weber-Ploemacher, with photos by Joachim Giesel, Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X, p. 118.
^ Compare the information under the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
^ Wulf Konold: Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Der Komponist und sein Werk, DuMont, Köln 1986, ISBN 3-7701-1742-5, p. 52.
^ Der Musiktheatermacher on Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
^ Sabine Sonntag publications