Jan Hartmann
Lighting Designer
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Jan Hartmann has worked at Oper Frankfurt since 1999 and became a lighting master in 2010. His first production for the company was Nineteenhundred in 2011, which was followed by, amongst others, Das Spiel von Seele und Körper, Orpheus, The Golden Dragon, By Our River, Pierrot lunaire / Anna Toll, Julietta, Le cantatrici villane, L'Africaine, Fauré's Pénélope ,The Cunning Little Vixen, Rigoletto and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He enjoyed great success at Winter and Summer festivals in Erl, with new productions of Rusalka, L'elisir d'amore, Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini (which was later performed in Frankfurt) and Wagner's Ring, which enjoyed two final glorious cycles in the summer of 2024. The world premiere of Vito Zuraj's Blühen and last season's new productions of Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer and Tannhäuser in Frankfurt are followed in 2024/25 by new productions of Berg's Lulu, von Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist, Wagner's Parsifal and Reimann's Melusine. Projects at other opera houses and theatres have included the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble Festa Teatrale Carneval in Hong Kong, for the choreographer Deborah Hay As Holy Sites Go and Verdi's Falstaff at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. Jan Hartmann has also been working as a professor for lighting design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach since 2013.