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An Irrational Tale

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Free concerts at Care Centres for the Elderly across Attica

Let Me Tell You A Fairy Tale

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Silence, the King Is Listening

Dad… Shall we dance?

Melisma II

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Women’s Paths and Bridges: Exploring Women’s Experiences through Voice, Music, and Storytelling

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British choreographer, she was a principal dancer with Ballet Rambert (1970-1985), where she also collaborated, as a guest artist, with Rudolf Nureyev. Recent engagements include Falstaff (Glyndebourne), The Queen of Spades (Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera), Festen, Eugene Onegin, Samson and Delilah, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, Hansel and Gretel, L’Heure espagnole / Gianni Schicchi, Il trittico, Un ballo in maschera (ROH), The Rake’s Progress, Fiddler on the Roof, Rusalka, La Gioconda (Salzburg Easter Festival), Madama Butterfly (Bregenz Festival), Parsifal (Opéra national de Paris), Ariodante (Lyric Opera Chicago, Palau de les Arts in Valencia), La fanciulla del West, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (ENO), Billy Budd (Frankfurt Opera, Gothenburg, Dutch National Opera), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (ENO, Bavarian State Opera), Lohengrin (Bavarian State Opera), Gloriana (ROH, Hamburg), Werther (Bergen National Opera) and Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera, Nevill Holt Opera, Irish National Opera).

Born in Augsburg, he combines painting, sculpture, installations and stage design in his multidisciplinary practice. He studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2011, he has been working as a stage and costume designer in opera. He has designed sets for such productions as Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades and Lohengrin for the Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam) and for the opera Der fliegende Holländer for the Finnish National Opera (Helsinki). His production of I vespri siciliani was performed at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London) in 2013 and at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen in 2015. His artistic work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Paris, Milan, Sydney, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Berlin and in 2023 at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.

English stage director, he has been the Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London) since 2017. Ηe was artistic director of the NIO (2010-2017). He studied English literature and history (Oxford University) and then worked with the playwright Howard Barker. In 2004, he co-founded the opera company Second Movement (London), for which he directed numerous site-specific productions. He has directed the productions L’elisir d’amore, Der fliegende Holländer, Macbeth, Salome, Agrippina, Hänsel und Gretel, Turn of the Screw, Noye’s Fludde for NIO and for Beijing and Shanghai Music Festivals. For the ROH (London), he has directed Tosca, Semele (also for Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Trouble in Tahiti / A Quiet Place, The Rape of Lucretia (also for the Aldeburgh Festival), Rigoletto and Jephtha. He has also directed for the Salzburg Easter Festival (La Gioconda), Norwegian National Opera (L’elisir d’amore), Magdeburg Theatre (Aida), Scottish Opera (Eugene Onegin, Orphée aux enfers), Welsh National Opera (Macbeth), Young Vic (My Dad’s a Birdman) and the Nederlandse Reisopera.