Jochen Biganzoli

Jochen Biganzoli has been working as a freelance opera director since 1999 at national and international venues, including the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Hamburg State Opera, the Theater Lübeck, the Meiningen State Theatre, the Augsburg State Theatre, the Halle Opera, and the Leipzig Opera. The Thuringian theaters in Altenburg, Gera, Eisenach, and Meiningen have also always been part of his career.

In 2013, he received the Rolf Mares Prize in the category “Outstanding Production” for his staging of “The Master and Margarita” at the Hamburg State Opera. For his “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” at Theater Lübeck, he was nominated in 2016 for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST in the category “Best Direction of Musical Theater.” His production “Der ferne Klang” (Theater Lübeck) was highlighted in the 2018 season review of the magazine “Die Deutsche Bühne” for “Stage/Space/Costumes”; his “Freischütz” (Theater Lübeck) was nominated in the 2018/2019 yearbook of “Opernwelt” in the category “Best Performance.”

With his “radically conceived and astonishingly coherent” production of “Tristan und Isolde” in 2019 at Theater Hagen, Jochen Biganzoli was honored in the “Die Deutsche Bühne” authors’ survey as an “outstanding directorial contribution to the current development of opera” and was also once again nominated for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST.

His most recent works include “Die tote Stadt” and “The Wreckers” at the Staatstheater Meiningen, “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” at the Staatstheater Augsburg, and “Euridice” at the German National Theater Weimar.

Jochen Biganzoli has extensive teaching experience at the University of the Arts Bremen, the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, and the University of Music and Dance Cologne.

Further information at www.biganzoli.de