Jetske Mijnssen
director
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The Dutch director Jetske Mijnssen is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt with this new production of Handel's Ottone. Recent stagings have included Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (De Nationale Opera Amsterdam), Handel's Ariodante (Covent Garden), Cavalli's La Calisto (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, which won the »Prix Claude-Rostand« from the French Syndicat de la Critique), Wagner's Parsifal (Glyndebourne) and Handel's Agrippina (Zürich Opera). Her first production for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich was Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the 2024 Opera Festival. She directed a highly acclaimed Tudor triology in Amsterdam of Donizetti's – Anna Bolena (2022), Maria Stuarda (2023) & Roberto Devereux (2024). She's been busy at leading European theatres and opera houses since 2001, including the Semperoper in Dresden, the Aalto-Theater in Essen, the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, the Hamburg State Opera, Komische Oper in Berlin, Theater Basel, Oper Graz, the Royal Opera in Copenhagen and Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg. Her production of Luigi Rossi's Orfeo at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy won the 2016 »Grand Prix de la musique du Syndicat de la critique« and her staging of Massenet's Werther (at Saarländ's Staatstheater) was nominated for a 2014 »DER FAUST« theatre prize. She studied Dutch literature at Amsterdam University before graduating in theatre direction, concentrating on opera, from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam, which she followed up by gaining invaluable experience working assisting directors in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland.