Götz Friedrich
Aug 04, 1930 - Dec 12, 2000 (70 years old) in Berlin, Germany
Götz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director. He was a student and assistant of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin, where he went on to direct his early productions. He first came to international prominence with a controversial 1972 production of Wagner's Tannhäuser at Bayreuth.