Bruno Berger-Gorski (born August 8, 1962, Hagen, Germany) is a German opera director of Polish descent.[1][2] He lives in Vienna, Cologne and Nuremberg.[3][4]

Career

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Bruno Berger-Gorski attended the Albrecht Dürer Gymnasium in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He later attended the University of Vienna, where he studied theater, music and art history and finished with a master's degree.[3] While still at university he wrote a work on Dirk D'Ase called Dirk D'Ase und sein musikdramatisches Werk mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Uraufführung 'Einstein, Spuren des Lichts' (roughly: Dirk D'Ase and his dramatic music works with special consideration for the premiere of Einstein, Footsteps in Light ). Berger-Gorski has demonstrated a focus on rediscovering old or rarely performed operas. He has directed works by Udo Zimmermann, Ella Milch-Sheriff, Giselher Klebe, Tom Johnson, Manfred Trojahn, Knut Vaage and Camille Kerger. His staging of Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen (The Rhine Nixies) at the Theater Trier was designated Rediscovery of the Year 2005 by the German opera journal Opernwelt.[5] Berger-Gorski is the only active German opera director who has staged operas on four continents.[2]

As an internationally invited director, Berger-Gorski has brought more than 100 opera titles from the standard repertoire onto stages around the world. He also shows a preference for unusual, rare and contemporary works, such as Dirk d'Ase's Einstein (World Premiere in Ulm), Gomes' Condor for the Festival Amazonas de Ópera in Manaus, Wolf-Ferrari's Sly or most recently Adreana Hölszky's Triologia in Bonn or Ella Milch-Sheriff's Baruch's Schweigen at Theater Fürth.

Berger-Gorski's mastery of 5 languages has allowed him to direct at Opera-houses like the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex in Caracas, the National Theatre (Prague), the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea, in Ashkelon, at the Greek National Opera in Athens and at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami.[6]

At present, Berger-Gorski is directing premieres of works by Josef Tal and Ella Milch-Sheriff in Bonn, Luxembourg and Vienna. In August 2015, he directed Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery in São Paulo, and in 2016 in Wroclaw, as part of its program as European Capital of Culture, he is putting on a new production of Verdi's Macbeth.

In 2017 Berger-Gorski is invited to direct Samson and Delilah (opera) at the Dallas Opera with Olga Borodina and Conductor Emmanuel Villaume.[1]

Works (selection)

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Year Production
2016 Der Freischütz (The Marksman) (Weber) for Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen with Laurent Wagner (Conductor)
Macbeth (Verdi) for the Opera Wroclaw with Vladimir Chmelo for the European Capitals of Culture Program of the European Commission
Conversation with a stone (Ella Milch-Sheriff) the Chamber Opera The Garden (Josef Tal) linked by the sculpture Carrelino by Daniel Spoerri at the Theater Esch (Luxemburg) in Cooperation with the Opera Bonn, Conductor Marino Formenti, with the United Instruments of Lucelin
2015 Conversation with a stone (Ella Milch-Sheriff), scenic world premier and the Chamber Opera The Garden (Josef Tal) linked by the sculpture Carrelino by Daniel Spoerri at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in Cooperation with Oper Bonn, Patronage Hadar Handelsman (Israelian Ambassador), Conductor Marino Formenti
Betrothal in a Monastery/Verlobung im Kloster (Prokofiev) for the Theatro Sao Pedro in São Paulo, with Luiz Malheiro (Conductor)
Baruch's Schweigen (Ella Milch-Sheriff) for the Theater in Fürth
2014 Macbeth with Lucio Gallo for the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw / Breslau
Otello (Rossini) with R.D. Smith, Maria Luigia Borsi for Oviedo, Ives Abel (Dirigent)
Der Liebesfluch U.A Kammeroper about "Georg Trakl" by Kraus-Hübner, in Salzburg with Marino Forementi, Trakl-Gedenkstätte, Stage Daniel Spoerri
Zauberflöte for the Opera Maribor, Slowenien
2013 Don Giovanni (Gazzaniga) for the Janáček-Opera in Brno, co-production with Teatro del Giglio Lucca, Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo
Rigoletto (Verdi) for Trier with Jacek Strauch
Someone is going to come by Knut Vaage / Jon Fosse combined with
Mond aus kochender Milch by C.Kerger / N.Helminger europ. E.A for Kaiserslautern / TNL Louxemburg
Otello for the Theater Bremerhaven with Ray.M.Wade / Sangmin Lee
2012 Zauberflöte for Opera Zuid/Maastricht
Don Carlos (Verdi) with Noa Danon for the Theater Magdeburg – co-production with National Theater Brno
2011 Lakmé (Delibes) für the Theater Trier with Adreana Kraschewski
Mass/Bernstein scenic performance for the Votiv-Church in Vienna
La bohème (Leoncavallo) for the Theater Hagen, 100 Jahre Jubilee with Jaclyn Bermudez
2010 Mass/Bernstein for Opera Bergen
Tosca (Puccini) with Iano Tamar/Gustavo Porta for the Performing Art Center in Mumbai/Indien
Don Giovanni with Carlo Colombara for Lucca/Bergamo
2009 Der Vampyr (Marschner) für the Opera Festival Heidenheim
Vampirabile/ Monolog/ Es kamen schwarze Vögel Adriana Hölszky as scenic World Premier for Bonn, Kammermusiksaal
Macbeth for the Janáček-National Opera in Brno
Rigoletto for the Bellas Artes in Mexico-City, with Maria Alejandres, Arturo Chacon
Rigoletto for the Opera Bonn, with Julia Novikova
Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) for Opera Zuid, Maastricht, NL
2008 Der Freischütz for the Opera Festival in Heidenheim with J. Havranova, P. Bernhard
Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) for Arenum/Bergen with P.Bernhard, K.Coresi
La traviata (Verdi) with P. Antonucci, Roberto Sacca, P. Gavanelli. Open-air in La Palma at Convento St.Cruz
La fille du régiment (Donizetti) with Annemarie Kremer for Opera Zuid, Maastricht
2007 Il trovatore (Verdi) with G.Oniani for Staatsoper Kazan/Den Haag
La clemenza di Tito (Mozart) in the M.Trojahn-Composure for Würzburg
Il trovatore with Ikaia-Purday/G.Oniani, R.Ragatzu for Kaiserslautern
Norma (Bellini) with Olga Makarina, Carmen Oprisanu at the National Theater Prague
Hänsel und Gretel for the Theater Greifswald/Stralsund
2006 La bohème for the Opera in Thessaloniki with Alexia Voulgaridou, Andrea Coronella, Stage: Daniel Dvorak
Susannah (Floyd) as Scandinavian premiere for the Vest Norges Opera in a hangar at the Airport Bergen
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) – excerpts for the Conservatoire Luxembourg
Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) with J.Perdigon/Graciella Araya for the Vest-Norges-Opera
2005 Die Zauberflöte for the Florida Grand Opera in Miami, US
Die Rheinnixen (Offenbach) as a German premiere for the Theater Trier,
Rediscovery of the Year (Opernweltjahrbuch)[5]
Tannhäuser (Wagner) for the Opera in Oviedo, Spanien, with W.Millgramm, E.Magee, G.Araya, Conductor:F.Haider, Scenography: H.Balthes
Azrael (Dirk D'Ase) Tango-Opera as a German premiere for the Theater Trier
2004 Traviata Open-air with Ana-Maria Kaufmann, Harry Van der Plaas, for the Heidenheim Opera Festival
Einstein (Dirk D'Ase) World Premiere for the City of Ulm, Germany
Norma for the Amazonas-Festival, Manaus, Brasil with L.Flanigan
Die 7 Todsünden (Kurt Weill) for the Vest Norges Opera, Bergen
Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky) for the Vest Norges Opera, Bergen
2003 Faust (Gounod) for the Vest Norges Opera, Bergen, with Dario Schmunk, Urban Malmberg, Jana Havranova
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) for the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) for the Landestheater Coburg
La bohème Landestheater/ Salzburg /großes Festspielhaus with Olga Mykytenko, Vincente Obuena, Alex Exposito, W. Koch
2002 La Cenerentola (Rossini) for the Gold Coast Opera in Florida/USA with J. Rivera
Abu Hassan (Weber) and Mesdames de la Halle (Offenbach) for the National Opera in Athens (co-production with Chamber Opera Athens)
Condor (Carlos Gomes) with F.Portari for the Amazonas-Festival in Manaus

Source: operabase.com[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Luxuriant Online". Archived from the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  2. ^ a b Jens Stubbe (2011-09-09). "Märchen-Statist kehrt als Regisseur zurück | Westfalenpost.de" (in German). Derwesten.de. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  3. ^ a b "Schauspieler/Mitarbeiter". Theaterhagen.de. Archived from the original on 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  4. ^ "Verdi in Wroclaw – ein Mega-Event, keine Neudeutung | nmz - neue musikzeitung". Nmz.de. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  5. ^ a b "Inhaltsverzeichnis : Reihenfolge des Inhaltsverzeichnisses" (PDF). Kultiversum.de. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  6. ^ "Bruno Berger-Gorski".
  7. ^ Bruno Berger-Gorski Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine in the Search of operabase.com. Viewed June 25, 2015.

Other sources

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  • Bruno Berger Gorski: Dirk D'Ase und sein musikdramatisches Werk mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Uraufführung 'Einstein, Spuren des Lichts' , Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien, 2007
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