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27 Nov 2023
Rémy Fichet next director of the Leipzig Ballet
Rémy Fichet is the designated new Director of the Leipzig Ballet and will take over its artistic direction at Oper Leipzig from the 2024/25 season. In succession to the meritorious previous Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer Mario Schröder, Rémy Fichet will continue the tradition of the Leipzig Ballet as established by Uwe Scholz. For the upcoming seasons, collaborations with innovative choreographers from the international dance scene are being planned. Tobias Wolff, Director of Oper Leipzig: "We are deliberately making the change to a curatorial-artistic direction at the Leipzig Ballet, and I am truly grateful that our preferred candidate Rémy Fichet has chosen our institution. I look forward to new creative formats and choreographies with the company."

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15 Nov 2023
Ivan Repušić appointed General Music Director
Ivan Repušić, one of the most renowned conductors of his generation, has been appointed as the future General Music Director of Oper Leipzig and will take up his post from the 2025/26 season. Intendant (or General Director) Tobias Wolff put Repušić forward following an intensive selection process, which culminated in a clear vote in his favour by the selection committee. Tobias Wolff: »I am very pleased that we have been able to appoint such an accomplished conductor and passionate musician as Ivan Repušić. His inspirational vision for the development of Oper Leipzig and his extensive network of outstanding international singers will be a real asset to our leadership team!« Together with Dr Skadi Jennicke, Mayor and Councillor for Culture of the City of Leipzig, Tobias Wolff welcomed the music director designate at the Opera House.

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10 Nov 2023
Director Ilaria Lanzino has won International Opera Award
Yesterday, November 9, 2023, the winners of the International Opera Awards were announced at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw's Teatr Wielki. An opera production by Italian director Ilaria Lanzino, who is currently working at Oper Leipzig, was honoured in the »Rediscovered Work« category. With Stanislaw Moniuszko's »Jawnuta«, she brought an evocative story about the Polish Roma to the stage in Poznan. In Leipzig, the opera director who is known for her unconventional approaches and who already won first place in the prestigious »European Opera-directing Prize« in 2020, is gearing up for the premiere of the first climate-neutral opera production: »Mary, Queen of Scots« by the Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave.

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The Oper Leipzig follows the tradition of 330 years of musical theatre in Leipzig: in 1693, the first opera house on the Brühl was opened as the third civic music theatre in Europe after Venice and Hamburg. Since 1840, the world-renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra has played for all performances of the opera and the Leipzig ballet. In addition to today's opera house on Augustusplatz, built in 1960, Oper Leipzig includes the Musikalische Komödie in the Lindenau district, a special venue for musicals and operettas. With around 700 employees, it is the city's largest in-house cultural institution and comprises five mainstays: the opera, the Musikalische Komödie, the Leipzig Ballet, the 360° outreach division and the theatre craft studios, which work for all of the city's theatres.

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