Nadja Loschky
director
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Nadja Loschky is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut directing last season's new Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, for this new production of Berg's Lulu. Recent stagings have included Weinberg's The (female) Passenger, an Oper Graz - Staatstheater Mainz co-production, Braunfels’The Birds at Cologne Opera, Alice in Wonderland at Zurich Opera and Thomas' Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin. Zazà and Il barbiere di Siviglia are her latest productions at Theater Bielefeld, where she took up the post as, for the time being joint, intendant in 2023/24. She staged the world premiere of Christian Jost's Mikropolis at the Komische Oper Berlin, and his Red Lantern at Zurich Opera. She returns regularly to both houses. Other engagements have included L’incoronazione di Poppea, Alcina, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Così fan tutte, Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo, Orpheus in the Underworld, Boieldieu's La dame blanche, Norma, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, Aida and Paul Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at places including the Städtische Bühnen in Osnabrück, Staatstheater in Kassel, Theater Heidelberg, Theater Aachen, the Luzerne Theater, the Staatstheater in Oldenburg and Schwetzingen's Baroque Theatre. Her take on Fried's mono operaThe Diary of Anne Frank was invited to the Youth Theatertreffen in Berlin (a big honour), her Madama Butterfly won her the Götz Friedrich Prize and her Britten's Death in Venice and Leoncavallo's Zazà were nominated for Opernwelt Magazine's Best Director 2016 and 2023. Nadja Loschky is a professor at the »Hanns Eisler« University for Music Berlin, where she studied opera direction, and the UdK in Berlin. She assisted Hans Neuenfels after her studies and will be coming back to Frankfurt soon.