Biography
Nicola Raab has in recent years gained recognition internationally as a director of great sensitivity, detailed character work and visual flair. Her production of Written on Skin for the Teatro Comunale Bolzano received the coveted “Premio Abbiate” by the Guild of Italian Music Critics in 2016. In 2013, she was awarded the Arets Reumert Prize for best Danish opera production for Otello at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.Most recently, she directed Macbeth for Opéra de Dijon and new productions of Turandot for Theater Regensburg and Carlo Pallavicino’s opera Le Amazzoni nell’isole fortunate together with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset at Musikfestpiele Potsdam Sanssouci. Other Productions include La Traviata at the Komische Opera Berlin, Rusalka for the Opéra national du Rhin and Opéra de Limoges, Ariodante for the Drottningholms Slottsteater, Jenůfa for Greek National Opera in Athens, Il Corsaro at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Lakmé at Malmö Opera, Francesca da Rimini for the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Elektra for the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Semiramide for the Opéra national de Lorraine and returned to the Teatro Comunale Bolzano for Catalani’s La Wally.
Furthermore she has recently completed a collaboration with the Conservatoire National Superieure de Musique Paris by directing the production Die Fledermaus together with conductor Lucy Legay and in co-operation with Philharmonie de Paris and in the current season will create Keiser’s Ulisses for Theater Heidelberg at Winter in Schwetzingen, also a Covid postponed project, and a co -production with Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn.
Elsewhere, Nicola Raab has staged I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Bergen, von Einem’s Jesu Hochzeit at the Carinthian Summer Festival, Written on Skin for Theater St. Gallen, John Adams’ A Flowering Tree at Gothenburg Opera and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Boris Godunov at Savonlinna Operafestival, Lohengrin at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Beatrice and Benedict by Berlioz and A Flowering Tree for Chicago Opera Theatre, Death and the Maiden and The Cunning Little Vixen at Theater St. Gallen, Don Chisciotte by Francesco Conti and Artaxerxes by Leonardo Vinci for Musikwerkstatt Wien, The Marathon by Isidora Zebeljan for Bregenzer Festspiele, Parsifal for the Estonian National Opera, Tristan und Isolde at the Novaya Opera Moscow, as well as Massenet’s Thaïs at Gothenburg Opera, Finnish National Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Valencia.
Early on her career, Ms Raab produced a series of modern works for Kammeroper Wien, namely Moskau, Tscherjomuschki by Shostakovitch, When she died… by Jonathan Dove and Eight Songs for a Mad King by P. Maxwell Davies, The Io Passion by Harrison Birtwistle and Britten’s Owen Wingrave.
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