Eva-Maria Höckmayr
Director
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Eva-Maria Höckmayr’s first work at Oper Frankfurt was this production of Delius’ Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe / A Village Romeo and Juliet which was followed by Berlioz’ Les Troyens. Her multidiciplinary productions have included Tosca, Der Freischütz and Janáček’s The Makropoulos Case at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, Lucia di Lammermoor and Suor Angelica at Cologne Opera, Madama Butterfly and Un ballo in maschera at the Nationaltheater in Weimar, Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Graz, Pique Dame, Tannhäuser and Verdi’s Otello at Theater Freiburg, La traviata at Theater Heidelberg and Le nozze di Figaro at the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken. She has also staged rediscovered baroque operas, including Scarlatti’s Marco Attilio Regolo in the Rococo Theatre in Schwetzingen and Telemann’s Emma und Eginhard at the Staatsoper Berlin, and better known ones including Orlando in Lucerne and L’Incoronazione di Poppea, to re-open the Staatsoper in Berlin. Future plans include Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, Spontini’s Fernand Cortez or the Conquest of Mexico at Theater Dortmund, Janáček’s Jenufa at Stadttheater Bern and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at the Opera national de Lorraine. She was awarded the Götz Friedrich Prize, the NRW’s prize for up and coming directors and a prize from the Deutsche Bank Foundation. She has been nominated many times for »Best Direction«, »Best Production« and »Best Up and Coming Artist« in specialist publications. Eva-Maria Höckmayr studied theatre, modern German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and direction at Bavaria’s August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich. She teaches at the UdK in Berlin, the August Everding Theatre Academy and University for Music and Theatre in Hamburg.