Tatjana Gürbaca - Director
Biography
Tatjana Gürbaca, repeatedly lauded for her productions by the German Magazine “Opernwelt”, was born in Berlin in 1973 and studied stage direction at the „Hanns Eisler“ Music University, where she attended master classes by Ruth Berhaus and Peter Konwitschny. In 2000, she won the Ring Award at the International Staging Competition in Graz (subject: Parsifal), which led to an engagement staging Turandot for the Graz Opera.
Further productions have included La Canterina and Lo Speziale at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Boltshauser's Brot und Spiele at the Schauspielhaus Graz, Stravinsky's Mavra at the Staatsoper Berlin, Dallapicolla's Il Prigioniero at the Vienna Volksoper, Dido and Aeneas at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci at the Regensburg Opera. Highlights from 2004/05 were Così fan tutte at the Lucerne Opera and Menotti's The old lady and the thief at the Graz Opera.
In 2005/06, she directed Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Graz Opera, Mazeppa at the Berne Opera, Kraus' Soliman II coupled with Mozart's Zaide at the Lucerne Opera as well as Philippe Hersant's world premiere of Der Schwarze Mönch at the Leipzig Opera. Recently, she was engaged by the Novosibirsk Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro), the Graz Opera (Rigoletto), the Prinzregententheater Munich (Così fan tutte), the Mainz Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor) and the Bremen Opera (Le Grand Macabre).
Current and future new productions include Manon in Mainz, Carmen in Leipzig, Salome in Düsseldorf. The Vlaamse Opera, co-producing with the Bremen Opera, will welcome her in a Tchaikovsky cycle, beginning with Mazeppa and Eugen Onegin.
Tatjana Gürbaca regularly collaborates with the set designer Klaus Grünberg (www.klausgruenberg.de).
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