People

Scene from Die Walküre
© Martin Sigmund
Conductors
Conductors
David Afkham
Benjamin Bayl
Nicholas Carter
Shawn Chang
Valerio Galli
Michele Gamba
José Luis Gutiérrez
Tomáš Hanus
Kerem Hasan
Luka Hauser
Vlad Iftinca
Alevtina Ioffe
Keren Kagarlitsky
Johannes Klumpp
Lin Liao
Tianyi Lu
Nicola Luisotti
Oksana Lyniv
Cornelius Meister
Stefano Montanari
Manuel Pujol
Andreas Schett
Stefan Schreiber
Sebastian Schwab
Elena Schwarz
Marit Strindlund
Duncan Ward
Andriy Yurkevych
Singers
Women's Ensemble
Esther Dierkes – soprano
Josefin Feiler – soprano
Stine Marie Fischer – alto
Ks. Diana Haller – mezzo-soprano
Claudia Muschio - soprano
Ida Ränzlöv - mezzo-soprano
Ks. Simone Schneider – soprano
Ks. Catriona Smith – soprano
Maria Theresa Ullrich – mezzo-soprano
Natasha Te Rupe Wilson – soprano
Men's Ensemble
Atalla Ayan – Tenor
Andrew Bogard – Bass-baritone
Björn Bürger - baritone
Elmar Gilbertsson – Tenor
Ks. Heinz Göhrig – Tenor
Elliott Carlton Hines – Baritone
Ks. Torsten Hofmann – Tenor
Ks. Shigeo Ishino – Baritone
Goran Jurić – Bass-baritone
Moritz Kallenberg - tenor
Johannes Kammler – Baritone
Ks. Matthias Klink – Tenor
Kai Kluge – Tenor
Paweł Konik – Baritone
Jasper Leever – Bassbaritone
Michael Nagl – Bass
Ks. Adam Palka – Bass
Alberto Robert – Tenor
David Steffens – Bass
Charles Sy - tenor
Guests Women
Rosie Aldridge
Andrea Baker
Olga Busuioc
Elizabeth DeShong
Shannon Keegan
Sophie Koch
Alisa Kolosova
Katia Ledoux
Leia Lensing
Caroline Melzer
Beate Ritter
Emma Rothmann
Aušrine Stundyte
Clare Tunney
Rachael Wilson
Guests Men
Marcel Beekman
Joshua Bloom
Stephan Bootz
Daniel Brenna
Benjamin Bruns
Alexander Fedorov
Lucio Gallo
Martin Gantner
Rodrigo Porras Garulo
Dominic Große
Franz Hawlata
Jonas Jud
Peter Lobert
Maeckes
Michael Mayes
Daniel Miroslaw
Yuriy Mynenko
Matthew Polenzani
Samuel Sakker
Gerhard Siegel
Arsen Soghomonyan
Pavel Yankovsky
Actors & performance artists
Gábor Biedermann
Boris Burgstaller
Louis Buß
Alexander Cameltoe
Aycan Ersal
Luis Hergón
Matthias Kass
Josephine Köhler
Cassie Augusta Jørgensen
Judy LaDivina
Alessio Marchini
Rosalia Pace
Reflektra
Jonathan Reimann
Klaus Rodewald
Lola Rose
Paula Skorupa
Felix Strobel
Vava Vilde
Chiara Viscido
Jens Wawrczeck
Opera Studio
Direction
Boris Ignatov
Deputy Direction
Keith Bernard Stonum
Coaching
Vlad Iftinca
Correpetition
Shawn Chang
Members
Sam Harris – Tenor
Itzeli Jáuregui – Mezzosopran
Olivia Johnson – Mezzosopran
Aleksander Myrling – Bassbariton
Jacobo Ochoa – Bariton
Alma Ruoqi Sun – Sopran
Joseph Tancredi – Tenor
Lucia Tumminelli – Sopran
State Opera Chorus
Chorus Direction
Manuel Pujol
Deputy Chorus Direction
Bernhard Moncado
Chorus Assistant
Giulio Ferré
Chorus Inspective
Karolin Unger
Paulina Walter
Voluntary year of Social Service
Mirja Tröndle
Musical Direction of the Children's Chorus
Bernhard Moncado
Laura Corrales
Regina Friedek – Vocal Training
1st Soprano
Larisa Bruma
Laura Corrales
Isolde Daum
Karin Horvat
Sarah Seebaß-Jones
Noriko Kuniyoshi
Olga Paul
Ulla Seeber
Elisabeth von Stritzky
Maja Tabatadze
Beatrix Vrieze
Zinovia Zafeiriadou Vidovič
Jisun Oh (substitute)
2nd Soprano
Dagmar Würthen
Shan Shan Wang
Claudia Riedel
Mireille Neumeister
Anna Matyuschenko
Heike Beckmann
Imogen Thirlwall
Alies Züfle
1st Alto
Teresa Smolnik
Cristina Otey
Pia Liebhäuser
Barbara Kosviner
Simone Jackel
Brigitte Czerny
Elisabeth Auerbach
Lena Spohn
2nd Alto
Jie Zhang
Gudrun Wilming
Lucy Williams
Maria Tokarska
Eva Maria Sutor
Margret Hauser
Regina Friedek
1st Tenor
Ivan Yonkov
Primož Vidovič
Hojong Song
Alexej Shestov
Alois Riedel
Metodi Morartzaliev
Rubén Mora
Young Chan Kim
Hee-Tae Kim
Bo Yong Kim
Giorgi Davitadze
2nd Tenor
Ilja Werger
Shoung Ho Shin
Johannes Petz
Juan Pablo Marin
Rüdiger Knöß
Klaus Kächele
Alexander Efanov
Churchill Qiu
1st Bass
Kyung Won Yu
Ulrich Wand
Stephan Storck
Peter Paul
Matthias Nenner
Malte Kebschull
Daniel Kaleta
Henrik Czerny
Sebastian Bollacher
Hyunseok Lee – Eleve
2nd Bass
Saša Vrabac
Đorđe Tomić
Heiko Schulz
Sebastian Peter
Kristian Metzner
William David Halbert
Yehonatan Haimovich
Tommaso Hahn-Fuger
Ulrich Frisch
Chorus Board
Anna Matyuschenko
Shoung Ho Shin
Peter Paul
State Orchestra
Direction
Cornelius Meister – General music director
Rebecca Röse – Referent of the General music director
Luka Hauser – Conductor & Assistant to General music director
Claudia Jahn – Dramaturgy concerts (on parental leave)
Otto Hagedorn – Dramaturgy concerts
Elisa Wickert – Managing director orchestra
Eva Bunte – Deputy Managing director orchestra
Marc Schmuck – Communications
1st violin
Jewgeni Schuk – Principal violinist
Elena Graf – Principal violinist
Gustavo Surgik – Assistant principal violinist
Nicola Lolli – Assistant principal violinist
Holger Koch
Evgeny Popov
Michael Wille
Anja Boruvka-Önce
Eva-Maria Schäfer
Andreas Vogel
Kathrin Scheytt
Bettina Penzel
Elena Trust
Anna Rokicka
Cristina Stanciu
Anca Ionita
Johannes Anefeld
Nicola Hahn
Vanessa Gembries
Muzi Li
Lilian Scheliga
2nd violin
Muriel Bardon – First chair
Alexandra Maria Taktikos – First chair
Thomas Bilowitzki – Deputy first chair
Amelie Wünsche
Sonoko Imai-Stastny
Barbara-Dorothea Jakoblev
Diethelm Busch
Christian Frey
Kirsten Frantz
Natia Wiedmann
Martin Wissner
Marion Schäfer
Andrea Reiß
Sebastian Mare
Veronika Unger
Yuan-Wen Chang
Franziska Baur
Viola
Madeleine Przybyl – Solo
Alexander Akimov – Solo
Jan Melichar – Deputy Solo
Daniel Schwartz – Deputy Solo
Karin Böhnel-Gehring
Marta Casleanu-Windhagauer
Gundula Vogel
Gabriele Fiedler
Tomoko Ariu-Erker
Almut Lucia Beyer
Thomas Gehring
Charlotte Kirst
Bertram Jung
Robin Porta
Hedwig Gruber
Andrea Wegmann
Violoncello
Zoltan Paulich – Solo
Jan Pas – Deputy Solo
Guillaume Artus – Deputy Solo
Philipp Körner
Olivier Marger
David Cofré
Vache Bagratuni
Campbell White
Joachim Hess
Doris Erdmann
Laurens Groll
Double bass
Ruben Hoppe – Solo
Benedikt Büscher – Deputy Solo
Stefan Koch-Roos
Kai Hofert
Lars Jakob
Manuel Schattel
Michael Sistek
Aaron Pagani
Flute
Andreas Noack – Solo
Nathanaël Carré – Solo
Beatrix Meyer-Bode
Joseph Singer
Julia Köhl
Mathilde Alvin Besson
Oboe
Michael Kiefer – Solo
Ivan Danko – Solo
Ulrike Below
Sonja Kierspel
Nadine Bauer
Katrin Stüble
Clarinet
Nicole Kern – Solo
Stefan Jank – Solo
Michael Rathgeber
Gunter Pönisch
Frank Bunselmeyer
Stefanie Faber
Bassoon
Marianne Engelhardt – Solo
Virgilio Maia de Oliveira – Solo
Sebastian Mangold
Jürgen Fenner
Gudrun Müller
Christina Becker
Harp
Andrea Berger – Solo
Frederike Wagner – Solo
Horn
Philipp Römer – Solo
Pablo Neva Collazo – Solo
Reimer Kühn – Solo
Fabian Schröder
Karen Schade
Susanne Wichmann
Martin Grom
Nadja Helble
Christina Heckmann
Trumpet
Alexander Kirn – Solo
Lennard Czakaj – Solo
Werner Heckmann
Bernhard Kratzer
Martin Maier
Andreas Spannbauer
Trombone
Jan Hormann – Solo
Christian Hammerer – Solo
Reinhard Riedel – Deputy Solo
Alexander Erbrich
Matyas Istvan Veer
Matthias Dangelmaier
Tuba
Thomas Brunmayr
Stefan Kühndorf
Timpani
Ulrich Grunert - Solo
Harald Löhle - Solo
Drum kit
Christoph Wiedmann
Thomas Höfs
Philippe Ohl
Jürgen Spitschka
Claudius Lopez-Diaz
Marc Strobel
Orchestra board
Robin Porta
Christian Frey
Katrin Stueble
Stefan Jank
Laurens Groll
Chamber music committee

Franziska Baur
Julia Köhl
Frank Bunselmeyer
Stefan Koch-Roos
Orchestra office
Sonja von Schwanenflügel – Assistant to managing director
Theresa Kunkel – Assistant to managing director
Johanna Schwille – Assistant to managing director
Music library
Stefan Geiss
Anna Kaufmann
Sabine Wolf
Orchestra attendants
Roman Faigle
Alexander Garriss
Joachim Hilse
Alexander Köpf
Harald Kromer
Ralf Kühner
Lucas Vandré
Joscha Brettschneider
Solo Musicians
Solo Musicians
Sonia Achkar
Yujin Bae
Julia Brusentsova
Alan Hamilton
Vlad Iftinca
Polina Jakovleva
Sharon Kam
Michael Kuhn
Cornelius Meister
Alexander Melnikov
Götz Payer
Nagib Shanbeh Zadeh
Simon Lepper
Stage Directors
Directors
Suzanne Andrade
Martin G. Berger
Calixto Bieto
Marjoleine Boonstra
Silvia Costa
Willy Decker
Paul-Georg Dittrich
Achim Freyer
Jessica Glause
Eric Gauthier
Teresa Hoffmann
Florentina Holzinger
Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Barrie Kosky
Bastian Kraft
Aernout Mik
Sergio Morabito
Corinna von Rad
Axel Ranisch
Ulrike Schwab
Kirill Serebrennikov
Elisabeth Stöppler
Marco Štorman
Elena Tzavara
Demis Volpi
Jossi Wieler
Stage and Costume Design, Choreography
Stage and Costume Design
Peter Baur
Esther Bialas
Sabine Blickenstorfer
Elsje de Bruijn
Silvia Costa
Pia Dederichs
Rebekka Dornhege Reyes
Achim Freyer
Mai Gogishvili
Susanne Gschwender
Wolfgang Gussmann
Pierre Jorge Gonzalez
Christof Hetzer
Alexander Djurkov Hotter
Claudia Irro
Ralf Käselau
Sarah-Katharina Karl
Nikola Knežević
Valentin Köhler
Nina von Mechow
Mik Aernout
Jelena Miletić
Bert Neumann
Mercè Paloma
Katharina Schlipf
Lena Schmid
Gudrun Schretzmeier
Kirill Serebrennikov
Mona Ulrich
Gesine Völlm
Elisabeth Vogetseder
Bettina Werner
Lena Winkler-Hermaden
Demian Wohler
Saskia Wunsch
Yassu Yabara
choreography
Altea Garrido
Eric Gauthier
Judy LaDivina
Cassie Augusta Jørgensen
Demis Volpi
Light Design, Video and Animation
Light Design
Lothar Baumgarte
Alex Brok
Mario Daszenies
Felix Dreyer
Rainer Eisenbraun
Jakob Flebus
Marco Giusti
Rainer Janson
Gerrit Jurda
Diego Leetz
Max Kraußmüller
Anne Meussen
Friedrich Schmidt
Elana Siberski
Reinhard Traub
Video
Maja Čule
Tobias Dusche
Daniel Keller
Sophie Lux
Aernout Mik
Ilya Shagalov
Vincent Stefan
Animation
Paul Barritt
Direction
Artistic director
Viktor Schoner
General Music Director
Cornelius Meister 
Artistic Direction
Artistic director
Viktor Schoner
Personal assistant to the artistic director
Murielle Carré
Director of strategic communication
Thomas Koch
Opera Management
Casting Director
Boris Ignatov
Artistic Production Director
Simone Theilacker-Wolter
Staff Artistic Production Director
Verena Silcher
Head of Planning
Halina Ploetz
Assistants to the opera management
Juliane Doiwa
Jörg Geiger
Artistic Management
Director of Operations
Anja Bötcher-Krietsch
Manager of Artistic Administration
David-Mathias Wolf
Staff Member of Planning
Dominik Klingel
Assistant Directors
Sophia Binder
Jens Hindricks
Daniela Kiesewetter
Tizian Olivieri
Sophiemarie Won
Stage Managers
Almut Bracher
Heike Thiedmann
Sabine Konz
Melanie Ulmer
Cornelius Nitzsche
Extras
Andrea Holländer
Janine Grellscheid

Voluntary year of Social Service – Extras
Lotte Hertel
Dramaturgy
Head of dramaturgy & deputy artistic director
Ingo Gerlach
Dramaturgs
Otto Hagedorn
Miron Hakenbeck
Claudia Jahn-Schuster (on parental leave)
Franz-Erdmann Meyer-Herder
Julia Schmitt
Referent dramaturgy
Sabine Frank
Special projects
Dmitry Kunyaev
Surtitle
Cornelius Feil
Guest dramaturgs
Klaus-Peter Kehr
Ann-Christine Mecke
Gwendolyne Melchinger
Ulrich Lenz
Barbara Eckle
Juliane Votteler
Sergio Morabito
Carmen Kovacs
Jossi Wieler
Xavier Zuber
Marketing and Communication
Director communication
Johannes Lachermeier
Head of Marketing & Communication
Marc Schmuck
Head of press & public relations
Sebastian Ebling
Referent Development / Communication
Helena Rittler
Publications
Claudia Eich-Parkin
Referent Online communication
Paula Stietz
staff member Communication
Nicole Wohlfahrt
Voluntary year of Social Service
Marc Pfeiffer
JOiN
Artistic Director JOiN
Keith Bernard Stonum
Martin Mutschler
Head of Education & Deputy Artistic Director
Christoph Sökler
Head of Planning Office JOiN
Katharina Peters
Assistant Education
Suse Pfister (on parental leave)
Sarah Ehnert
Communication
Helena Rittler
Production Assistant
Raphaela Fiuza Nowakowski
Voluntary year of Social Service
Rosa Wielandt
Bastian Schmidt
Music Department
General Music Director
Cornelius Meister
Referent of the General Music Director
Rebecca Röse
Conductor & Assistant to General Music Director
Luka Hauser
Chorus direction
Manuel Pujol
Deputy chorus direction
Bernhard Moncado
Director of Music Staff
Alan Hamilton
Deputy Director of music staff
Vlad Iftinca
Solo repetition
Yuri Aoki
Vlad Iftinca
Michael Pandya
Marco Rizzello
Stefan Schreiber
Dorothea Schwarz

Prompters
Susanne Hoppe
Alexandru Petria
Lisa Rebol
Technical Direction
Director
Michael Zimmermann
Artistic production management
Susanne Gschwender
Honorary Members
Honorary Members
Prof. Klaus Zehelein
Lothar Zagrosek
Jossi Wieler
Ks. Irmgard Stadler
Ks. Wolfgang Schöne
Ks. Helene Schneiderman
Ks. Wolfgang Probst
Sergio Morabito
Ks. Catarina Ligendza
Prof. Ulrich Eistert
Ks. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Dürr