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]
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. 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.
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.https://web.archive.org/web/20170131165728/http://dallasopera.org/news/2017/01/26/2017-2018-season-announcement-at-northpark-center/
| 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) | ||
| 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 |