Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 2- Fiddler #1

29 | Lyric Opera of Chicago Lion , The Unicorn and Me for Washington National Opera; Susan Botti’s Telaio: Desdemona ; and most recently, an appearance with The Grant Park Music Festival, conducting the 2022 Lights On Broadway performances. BARRIE KOSKY | DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: Original Director/ The Magic Flute (2021/22). The Australian director recently completed his tenure as Intendant and Chief Director of the Komische Oper Berlin. Among the highlights of Kosky’s productions there, including Fiddler on the Roof, was The Magic Flute, which has been seen by more than a quarter of a million people on three continents. Kosky’s many awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production and the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Opera and Music Theatre. In 2016 he was named Director of the Year by Opernwelt . Kosky has directed for the Glyndebourne and Bayreuth festivals, as well as the major houses of London, Munich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Vienna, and numerous German theaters. Recent highlights among new productions include Prince Igor (Opéra National de Paris) and Salome (Oper Frankfurt). Born in Melbourne, Kosky was Artistic Director of Gilgul Theatre Company from 1990 to 1997 and Artistic Director of the 1996 Adelaide Festival, and from 2001 to 2005 he was co-Artistic Director of the Vienna Schauspielhaus. RUFUS DIDWISZUZ | SET DESIGNER Lyric debut Didwiszus has worked with directors such as Barrie Kosky, Thomas Ostermeier, Christian Spuck, Sasha Waltz, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at venues including the Komische Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Schaubühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Opernhaus Zurich, Opera Bastille, The Royal Swedish Opera, and The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, among many others. Festival appearances include Salzburger Festspiele, Avignon Festival, and Edinburgh Festival. Together with the performance artist Joanna Dudley, he has presented his own music theatre works at the Sophiensaele Berlin, the Schaubühne Berlin, and the BOZAR in Brussels. KLAUS BRUNS | COSTUME DESIGNER Lyric debut Bruns has worked in theaters such as Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Munich Kammerspiele, Vienna Burgtheater, and Deutsches Theater Berlin; the national theatres of Stuttgart, Munich, Hannover, and Hamburg; and the theaters of Cologne, Frankfurt, Zurich, and many others. His work has been seen in numerous opera productions at Oper Frankfurt, Theater an der Wien Vienna, Opera Antwerp, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, Teatro Real Madrid, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Opera di San Carlo Naples, Zurich, Bayerische Staatsoper, De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House London, Bayreuther Festspiele, and Opéra national de Paris. He has a longstanding artistic relationship at the Komische Oper Berlin. DIEGO LEETZ | ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Lyric debut The Berlin native’s work includes lighting design for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Verdi’s La forza del destino for Stefan Herheim, Haydn’s Il mondo della luna for Karoline Gruber (a co-production with the Innsbrucker Festival of Early Music), Paul Abraham’s The Flower of Hawaii for Andrea Schwalbach, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda for Karsten Wiegand, and Zwischen Licht und Schatten for Derek Gimpel and KlangforumWien. Leetz’s other works include Puccini’s Turandot for Alain Wullschleger at the Istana Budaya Kuala Lumpur, Handel’s Ezio with Günter Kramer at the Schwetzingen Festival, Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and Telemaco with Torsten Fischer at the Theater an der Wien, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle for Günter Krämer at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. Other work with Barrie Kosky includes The Magic Flute , The Pearls of Cleopatra , Tales of Hoffmann , The Beautiful Helena , and Pierrot Lunaire . MARCO PHILIPP | REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Lyric debut Philipp began his career as a teenaged apprentice at the Komische Oper Berlin, and has served as the company’s head lighting designer since 2003. He has worked in major theaters in Asia and across Europe, and made his U.S. debut in 2019 with La bohème at the L.A. Opera, directed by Barrie Kosky. MICHAEL BLACK | CHORUS MASTER The Australian chorus master is beginning his 11th season at Lyric, having held this position at Opera Australia in Sydney from 2001 to 2013. Black has served in this capacity for such distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and, in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, the Cantillation chamber choir, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Other activities include preparing The Damnation of Faust chorus and Haydn’s Creation at the Grant Park Music Festival, where he has worked for two seasons. He has served as chorus master for close to 140 different operas on four continents, and his work has been recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC, PBS, for many HD productions in movie theaters, and on television. Michael Black is supported by the Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair.