Sophie Jira
Sophie Jira, born in Vienna, spent her youth in the standing room of the opera house. She studied musicology at the University of Vienna and has since devoted herself primarily to operetta. She regularly appears as a dramaturge at the Vienna Volksoper.
She gained her first professional experience in the press office of the Vienna State Opera, the organization of the Vienna Opera Ball, the Vienna Narrenturm, and in program design at the cultural radio station Ö1.
From 2020 to 2024, Sophie Jira was engaged as a musical theater dramaturge at the Theater Altenburg Gera, where she worked with directors such as Achim Freyer, Bernd Mottl, and Laurence Dale. Her first full-length operetta, Redoute in Reuss (music: Olav Kröger), set in the Principality of Reuss-Greiz-Schleiz, premiered at the Theater Gera in 2024. This was followed by further commissioned works such as the open-air spectacle Der Weg des Orpheus (The Way of Orpheus, 2025). Sophie Jira is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Bank Foundation's Academy of Music Theater Today in the field of libretto. Her three-part opera SONST GUTE NACHT (Otherwise Good Night) will be premiered by the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt am Main in 2026. Since the 2024/25 season, Sophie Jira has been dramaturge at the Komische Oper Berlin.
As of February 2026
She gained her first professional experience in the press office of the Vienna State Opera, the organization of the Vienna Opera Ball, the Vienna Narrenturm, and in program design at the cultural radio station Ö1.
From 2020 to 2024, Sophie Jira was engaged as a musical theater dramaturge at the Theater Altenburg Gera, where she worked with directors such as Achim Freyer, Bernd Mottl, and Laurence Dale. Her first full-length operetta, Redoute in Reuss (music: Olav Kröger), set in the Principality of Reuss-Greiz-Schleiz, premiered at the Theater Gera in 2024. This was followed by further commissioned works such as the open-air spectacle Der Weg des Orpheus (The Way of Orpheus, 2025). Sophie Jira is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Bank Foundation's Academy of Music Theater Today in the field of libretto. Her three-part opera SONST GUTE NACHT (Otherwise Good Night) will be premiered by the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt am Main in 2026. Since the 2024/25 season, Sophie Jira has been dramaturge at the Komische Oper Berlin.
As of February 2026