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Peter Berne

  • Degree from the Mozarteum Salzburg, followed by private studies with Kurt Overhoff (Wieland Wagner's teacher) and the Italian doyen Luigi Ricci
  • Many years of activity as a director at various opera houses
  • Between 1983 and 1993, regular guest at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Salzburg – courses on the Ring, the Meistersinger, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten as well as on vocal performance practices in Italian opera
  • 1991-1993 Director of studies at the Vienna State Opera, mentoring in particular in the area of the Wagner and Strauss repertoires, rehearsal of the complete new Ring
  • Guest professorships at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Berlin University of the Arts, regular courses for soloists at the Göteborg Opera House, guest during productions of Wagner and Strauss operas at the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris and the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki
  • Master courses in Italian opera and bel canto at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Vadstena Academy in Sweden, the opera schools in Stockholm and Oslo, the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Conservatoire in Toulouse, as well as at music academies in Bern, Hannover, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Bremen, Halle, and Nuremberg
  • Book publications: Apokalypse - Weltuntergang und Welterneuerung in Wagners 'Ring' - Eine Werkeinführung für das dritte Jahrtausend“ (2006), Belcanto – Historische Aufführungspraxis in der italienischen Oper - ein praktisches Lehrbuch für Sänger, Dirigenten und Korrepetitoren (2008), both Werner'sche Verlagsgesellschaft,
  • 2008 Completes basic training as a Qigong-Lehrer at the "Medizinischen Gesellschaft für Qigong Yangsehng e. V." in Bonn, deepened knowledge of Qigong and Taiji during numerous stays in the Wudang Mountains/China
  • 2009-2015 Directs a course in bel canto as well as a Qigong course at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" in Leipzig
  • Founding of the "Zentrum am Pekingerplatz" in Berlin for Qigong instruction
  • Since 2014, lecturer in bell canto at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
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