Staff

Season 2023/24

Direction

Co-Intendant and Executive Director Susanne Moser
Co-Intendant and Opera Director Philip Bröking
Music Director James Gaffigan
Assistant to the Intendants Benedikt Simonischek
Assistant to the Executive Director Christina Beller, Alessa Harden
Assistant to the Opera Director and Guest Performance Coordinator Trevor John Pichanik

Artistic operations office

Chief Dispatcher Saskia LintzenScenic
Production Manager Sebastian Ukena
Artistic Production Manager and Head of Guest Performances Jochen Fischer
Head of the Artistic Operations Office Friederike Möbus
Staff Leonie Held

Dramaturgy

Chief Dramaturg Johanna Wall
Dramaturgs Maximilian Hagemeyer | Julia Jordà Stoppelhaar
Assistant Dramaturg Katie Campbell
Staff Dramaturgy Theresa Rose | Jakob Robert
Director Jung – für alle Anne-Kathrin Ostrop
Director Selam Opera! Mustafa Akça
Collaborator Selam Opera! Julia Oesterreich
Staff Member Jung – für alle, jobs@opera and Guided Tours Sarah Görlitz
Staff Member Jung – für alle and Resonare Anouk Kopps
Head of the Music Library Kristin Hansen
and other staff members

External Venues

Director Dr. Rainer Simon
Artistic Production Management Ada Felicitas Lange
Technical Production Management Anja Lawrenz
Project Management Spielräume René Kalauch
Team Assistance Rebecca Undine Schettler

Communication & Marketing

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Head & Diversity Manager André Kraft
Deputy Manager Cornelia Reimer
CRM and Media Planning Juliane Weinberger
Media Relations Manager Anja Scholtyssek
Public Relations Assistant with Focus on Refurbishment & Reconstruction Communication Juliane Otte
Online Editors David Regner | Maximilian Grosser
Assistant to the Management Sebastian Sprink
Graphic Designer Hanka Biebl
Assistant Media Relations Manager Milena Schönfeldt
Trainee Marketing Communications Manager Leonie Fricke

Deve­lopment

Head of Fundraising & Development Michaela Orizu
Speaker Förderkreis Christin Pönisch
Speaker Förderkreis Hanna Wolf
Speaker for Fundraising & Jung – für alle Lena Böhm
Student Assistant Development Jelena Wißmann
Voluntary Social Year Culture Jördis Finck

Musical Rehearsal

1st Conductor Erina Yashima
Director of Studies Christoph Breidler | Henning Kussel | Henning Kussel
Eva Pons | Walewein Witten
Solo Repetiteurs Lutz Kohl | Mark McNeill | Rui Rodrigues | Frank Schulte | Xin Tan | Aleksandra Tarasenko

Play Management

Evening Play Management and Assistant Director Anisha Bondy | Sophie Friedrichs | Katharina Fritsch | David Merz |
Esteban Muñoz | Werner Sauer

Additional Series

Head of Additional Series Heike Maria Preuß

Stage Management & Prompts

Chief Stage Manager Sabine Franz
Stage Managers Axel Baer | Jens Buss | Mario Nötzel
Prompters Fabienne Jost | Saskia Steinbeck | Katharina Voigt

Ensemble

Johannes Dunz | Tijl Faveyts | KS Karolina Gumos | KS Jens Larsen | KS Tom Erik Lie | Nadja Mchantaf | Philipp Meierhöfer | KS Caren van Oijen | KS Günter Papendell | Carsten Sabrowski | Alma Sadé | Caspar Singh | Penny Sofroniadou | KS Christoph Späth | Ivan Turšić | Mirka Wagner | Hubert Zapiór | Susan Zarrabi

Guests

Conductors David Bates | Adam Benzwi | Titus Engle | Ivo Hentschel | Adrien Perruchon | Koen Schoots | Kai Tietje | Matthew Toogood

Directors Suzanne Andrade (»1927«) | Herbert Fritsch | Max Hopp | Barrie Kosky | Tobias Kratzer | Ruth Brauer-Kvam | Dagmar Manzel | Axel Ranisch | Kirill Serebrennikov

Choreographers Martina Borroni | Christoph Jonas | Evgeny Kulagin | Otto Pichler

Stage Designers Esther Bialas | Rufus Didwiszus | Herbert Fritsch | Michael Lenke | Alfred Peter | Rebecca Ringst | Korbinian Schmidt | Rainer Sellmeier | Kirill Serebrennikov | Saskia Wunsch

Costume Designers Victoria Behr | Esther Bialas | Klaus Bruns | Bettina Helmi | Katrin Kath | Alfred Mayerhofer | Rainer Sellmeier | Kirill Serebrennikov | Katrin Lea Tag

Guest Dramaturgs Simon Berger | Tatyana Dolmatovskaya | Susanna Goldberg | Zsolt Horpácsy | Pavel b. Jiracek | Ulrich Lenz | Olaf A. Schmitt

Lighting Designers Franck Evin | Joachim Klein | Carsten Sander

Video Artist Paul Barritt (Animationen, »1927«)

Puppeteers Dirk Baum

Foley Artist Daniel Mandolini (Mando Beatbox)

Singers Tansel Akzeybek | Jörn-Felix Alt | Maria Bansen | Tommaso Barea | Helmut Baumann |Peter Bording | Ambur Braid | Seth Carico | Brandon Cedel | Devi-Ananda Dahm | Bryony Dwyer | Sigalit Feig | Max Hopp | James Kryshak | Karsten Küsters | Ruth Brauer-Kvam | Ruzan Mantashyan | Dagmar Manzel | Hagen Matzeit | Katharine Mehrling | Paula Murrihy | Margarita Nekrasova | Christiane Oertel | Timothy Oliver | Kseniia Proshina | Gloria Rehm | Peter Renz | Alexander Roslavets | Theo Rüster | Stefanie Schaefer | Andreja Schneider | Gerard Schneider | Sung Min Song | Barbara Spitz | Bernd Stempel | Dmitry Ulyanov | Deniz Uzun | Pavel Valuzhin | Nicky Wuchinger | Alina Wunderlin | Staats- und Domchor Berlin | Tölzer Knabenchor | Vocalconsort Berlin

Actors & Actresses Gisa Flake | Nico Holonics | Max Hopp | Stefan Kurt | Dagmar Manzel | Thorsten Merten

Dancers Michele Anastasi | Danielle Bezaire | Davide De Biasi | Alessandra Bizzarri | Christopher Bolam | Danilo Brunetti | Martina Borroni | Kai Braithwaite | Kai Chun Chuang | Shane Dickson | Ivan Dubinin | Lindsay Dunn | Michael Fernandez | Benjamin Gericke | Claudia Greco | Silvano Marraffa | Lauren Mayer | Daniel Ojeda | Paulina Plucinski | Susie Porter | Marcell Prét | Liam Scullion | Mariana Souza | Lorenzo Soragni | Brittany Young | Andreji Zubchevskyi

Choir Soloists

Choir Director David Cavelius
Deputy Choir Director Jean-Christophe Charron
Head of Choir Office Heike Maria Preuß
Staff Karin Maerten
Director of Children's Choir Dagmar Fiebach

Choir Soloists Ambar Arias | Fermin Basterra | Cornelia Berner | Mathias Bock | Sascha Borris | Thomas Bossen | Raphael Bütow | Kerstin Bulla-Rohde | Tim Dietrich | Josefine Eberlein | Max Eichhorn | Camille Frank | Sven Goiny | Ute Grabowski | Matthias Gummelt | Katrin Hacker | Volker Herden | Barbara Hetzelberger | Sabine Hill | Ezra Jung | Anja Kirov-Vogler | Alexander Kohl | Dominika Koscielniak | Hannah Elisabeth Kretschmer | Eberhard Krispin | Saskia Krispin | Silvia Lacchia | Carsten Lau | Julia Lässig | Katrin Le Provost | Cornelius Lewenberg | Sophia Linden | Maria Löwe-Franke | Friederike Meinke | Taiki Miyashita | Takahiro Namiki | Jan Proporowitz | Jana Reh | Anita Rodriguez Mendoza | Paula Rummel | Mechthild Sauer | Elke Regina Sauermann | Thomas Seyfarth | Matthias Spenke | Britta Süberkrüb | Jan-Frank Süße | Katharina Thomas | Annette Walter | Diemut Wauer | Judith Weinreich | Andrea Willert Yauci Yanes Ortega u. a.
Choir Board Carsten Lau (Chorobmann) | Britta Süberkrüb | Diemut Wauer (Mitglieder)

Opera Studio

Director of Studies and Opera Studio Eva Pons | Werner Sauer | Sebastian Ukena
Vocal Coaching Caren van Oijen
Scholarship Holders Ferhat Baday | Ferdinand Keller | Elisabeth Wrede

Orchestra

Orchestra Manager Andreas Moritz
Assistant to the General Music Director and Orchestra Manager Ulrike Krtschil
Deputy Orchestra Manager Christoph Maier
Staff Member of the Orchestra Directorate Julia Ostermann
Staff Member of the Music Library Petra Wildenhahn

1st Concertmaster Gabriel Adorján | Christina Brabetz

1st Violin

Deputy Concertmasters Pauline Reguig | Deniz Tahberer | Mika Yonezawa | Vorspielerin: Christiane Wolff | Stefan Adam | Ansgard Dörsam | Fuyu Iwaki | Rebecca Li | Claudia Other | Freia Schubert | Annemarie Starke | Susanne Thiebaud | Peter Wünnenberg

2nd Violin

Principals Daniela Braun | Melinda Watzel | Stellv. Stimmführerinnen Dorisz Batka | Yoo Jin Chung | Vorspieler Volker Friedrich | Ludwig Faust | Thomas Holzhäuser | Dietrich Knappe | Almuth Kummer | Mariam Machaidze | Evan Rynes | Amelie Schmidt | Sophia Wagemann

Violas

Solo-Violas Johanna Kubina | N.N. | Stellv. Solo-Bratsche Martin Flade | Susanne Fliegel | Vorspielerin Masae Kobayashi | Manfred Glaß | Julia Lindner de Azevedo Conte | Anton Loginov | Anna Lötzsch | Ganna Lysenko | Yuta Nishiyama

Violoncellos

Solo-Violoncello Kleif Carnarius | Felix Nickel | Deputy Solo Violoncello Christoph Lamprecht | Rebekka Markowski | Foreplayer Katharina Feltz | Christoph Bachmann | Thomas Helms | Cécile Tacier | Christian Tränkner

Double Bass

Solo Double Bass Hiroaki Aoe | Jörg Lorenz | Deputy Solo Double Bass Frank Lässig | Jesper Ulfenstedt | Foreplayer Arnulf Ballhorn | Okhee Lee | Alexander Tarbert

Harp

Solo-Harp Tatjana Schütz

Flutes

Solo-Flute Magdalena Naima Bogner | N.N. |.Deputy Solo Flute Andrea Haubold | Piccolo Flute Franziska von Brück | Carmen Schuhmann

Oboes

Solo Oboe Miriam Nickel | Tjadina Wake-Walker | Deputy Solo Oboe Ryoichi Masaka | English Horn Rafael Grosch | Gerald Fröhlich

Clarinets

Bass Clarinet N.N.
Solo Clarinet Sebastian Lehne | Daniel Gatz | Hohe Klarinette Tilo Morgner |

Bassoons

Double Bassoon Mario Kopf | Yu-Tung Shih
Solo Bassoon Reinhard Bastian | María José García Zamora | Stellv. Solo-Fagott Torsten Näther |

Horns

Solo Horn Christian Müller | Tillman Höfs | Deputy Solo-Horn Katrin Vogel | Angelika Goldammer |
Bodo Werner u. a.

Trumpets

Solo Trumpet Michael Stodd | Lorenz Jansky | Deputy Solo Trumpet Matthias Kamps | Frank Glodschei | Jens-Uwe Schönbrunn

Trombones

Solo Trombone Iñaki Ducun | Deputy Solo Trombone André Melo | Bass Trombone Daniel Holthaus | Carsten Meyer

Tuba

Sebastian Wagemann

Timpani

Solo Timpani Friedhelm May | Reinhard Toriser

Percussion

1st Percussion Thomas Kuhn | Gunter Sturm | Jan Biesterfeldt | Marc Mödig

Orchestra Guards

Bertram Joachim (Chief Orchestra Guard) | Orlando Körner | Gerald Labitzke | Wolfgang Vogelmann

Sheet Copyist

Bertram Joachim

Orchestra Board

Ansgard Dörsam | Yuta Nishiyama | Tatjana Schütz

Technical Department

Technical Director Daniel Kaiser
Technical Project Manager Anja Lawrenz | André Passenheim | Elke Steinbach
Assistant to the Technical Director and Team Leader Refurbishment Frank Köckritz
Staff Member Refurbishment David Spitzbarth
Head of the Construction Department Michael Pöhler
Production Assistant André Passenheim
Purchasing Heiner Franz-Thomas
and other employees

Stage Technology

Staff of the Technical Director Wolf Hofmann
Stage Manager Frank Meißner
Technical Guest Performance Manager and Theater Master Kim Bühler
Theater Master Björn Nieders | Andreas Uecker | Roland Wagner et al.
Side Masters Mathias Betzold | Rainer Bösel | Gunther Engelmann | Michael Kautz | Andreas Kurzke | Ronald
Schilsky | Thomas Schilsky a. o.
Stage Machinists/Handsmen/Workers Ben Block | Tobias Golde | Marko Krasevec | Jan Rothlehner |
Uwe Schulz et al.
Head of Plant Electrics Diego Leetz
Electrician Tobias Liebsch | Uwe Miketta
Transport Employee Andreas Flechsig

Lighting

Artistic Director of Lighting Olaf Freese
Head of the Lighting Department Johannes Scherfling
Lighting Supervisor Christian Büttner et al.
Technical Inspector Frank Eggers
First Lighting Supervisor Bernd Greiser
Lighting Technician in the Signal Box Bernd Greiser | Leonard Symann
Lighting Technician Manuel Hemp | Hans Joachim Peters et al.
Staff in the Video Department Michel Tittlepp | Benjamin Weiß

Sound Engineering

Head of Sound Department/Sound Engineer Sebastian Lipski
Sound Engineers Simon Böttler | Andrea Jetter | Andreas Stein
Sound Technician Kaspar Schwabe
Low Voltage Technician Lutz Virgils

Props

Props Master Steffen Münse
First Prop Master Nadin Hübner et al.
Props Manager Barbara Asmus | Angela Grünke | Alexander Krause | Lars Ludewig | Enrico Piepiorra | Frank Stöwner et al.
Head of the Props Workshop and Master of Setup Moritz Kleimann
Apprentice Event Technicians Piotr Lemieszczuk | Cijell Lübke | Jakob Pollok | Ellen Stahl | Viktoria Ullrich | Oscar Wollek

Costume

Head of Costume Design Katrin Kath-Bösel
Deputy Head of Costume & Costume Design Assistant Simone Lehmann
Assistant Costume Director Natalie Eggett
Staff Bettina Raddatz
Purchasing Sonja Däne
Rehearsal Assistant Mirka Vettermann
Costume Master in the evening service Petra Eichler | Diana Schulz | Heike Ziemann
Master of Presence Workshops Simone Rosengart | Rahel Weibel
Dressers Jens Belfin | Bernd Gaede | Luisa Hirsch | Lilith Kirsch | Margarete Kosche | Katja Lorenz et al.
Tailors Presence Workshops Lisa-Marie Engel | Markus Fischbach | Tim Flügge | Melanie Schulz

Make-up

Chief Make-up Artist Tobias Barthel
Deputy Head Make-up Artist Phil Hinze
Make-up Artists Annette Becker | Friederike Erben | Theresa Essig | Ute Gemper | Sven Hollenberg | Ann Huber | Thérèse Kleber | Fu Okamura | Eileen Richter | Marcilei Silva a. o.

Administration

Administrative Manager and Legal Advisor Katharina Stober
Controlling Kerstin Krause | Manja Schulze
Project Manager for HR with a focus on Diversity and Anti-Discrimination Development Maria Mitari
Ticket Sales Manfred Bickmeier
IT Manager Peter Schoppa
Resilience Dispatcher Stefanie Szafranski

Property Management

Head of Property Management Enrico Hübner
House Inspector Frank Kasper
House Technology Foreman Frank Teske
House Craftsman Christian Möckel | Peter Wierth
and other employees

Staff Council of Stif­tung Oper Berlin

Chairman Rainer Döll
1. Deputy Chairman Oliver Wulff
2. Deputy Chairman Christoph Lauer
Board members Rainer Döll | Oliver Wulff |
Christoph Lauer | Tilo Morgner | Tobias Raue
Other members Gunther Engelmann | Andreas Erbe |
Andreas Frohnhoefer | Renate Geelen-Walter |
Peter Miedzinski | Christin Pinzer | Andrea Rammisch | Florian Scherer | Heike Striebeler | Lothar Strauß
Secretariat Esther Gorgoni
Full-time member Renate Geelen-Walter
Women's Representative Renate Geelen-Walter
Deputy Women's Representative Franziska von Brück
Representative of the Severely Disabled Christoph Lauer
1st Deputy Andreas Frohnhoefer

Conflict Consultants of Stif­tung Oper in Berlin

Tina Bäcker | Ruth Ferrano | Esther Gorgoni | Anne Halzl |
Michael Hoh | Torsten Näther | Diemut Wauer |
Anja Wegener | Christiane Weise

Youth Representative

1st Chairperson Alexander Aura
Vice Chair Hannah Waltukat
Members Jakob Pollok

Honorary Members

Hannelore Bey | Tom Schilling | Anny Schlemm | Irmgard Arnold† | Rudolf Asmus† | Werner Enders† | Marianne Fischer-Kupfer† | Joachom Herz† | Harry Kupfer† | Kurt Masur† | Hanns Nocker† | Rolf Reuter†

Stiftung Oper Berlin

General Director Georg Vierthaler
Deputy General Director Rolf D. Suhl

Komische Oper Berlin Susanne Moser, Co-Intendant and Managing Director | Philip Bröking, Co-Intendant and Opera Director

Deutsche Oper Berlin Dietmar Schwarz, Intendant | Thomas Fehrle, Managing Director

Staatsoper Unter den Linden Matthias Schulz, Artistic Director | Ronny Unganz, Managing Director

Staatsballett Berlin Christian Spuck, Artistic Director | Jenny Mahr, Managing Director
Stage Service Rolf D.Suhl, Managing Director