Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 3- Fiddler #2

29 | Lyric Opera of Chicago 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. PETER WIEJACZKA | SOUND DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Nine productions since 2013, most recently The New Classics: Songs from the New Golden Age of Musical Theater (2020/21) and West Side Story (2018/19) Wiejaczka is a frequent collaborator on Lyric’s musical productions. Other notable projects include The Joffrey Ballet at the Lyric, the Ravinia Festival’s 2020 virtual Lawn Party, and a groundbreaking ceremony with the Prague Symphony Orchestra in honor of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Past projects include the Xbox Press Conference at E3, the NBA Legends Brunch Live Broadcast, Fox Sports Network Upfronts, and events for T-Mobile, Microsoft, Intel, and Starbucks. 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. OTTO PICHLER | ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHER Lyric debut The Austrian choreographer has worked on more than 60 pieces in the fields of drama, opera, operetta, and musicals, including shows at the Amsterdam Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, Semperoper Dresden, Frankfurt Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Royal Opera House London, Bavarian State Opera Munich,