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 Franco Abbiati” 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. January 2025 she was appointed as the new Head of Opera at Staatstheater Darmstadt, complementing her work as director.Season 24/25 highlights include Verdi’s Edgar at Opéra de Nice (in co-production with Teatro Regio Torino and Opéra national de Lorraine) as well as the main opera production for the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik with Les Talens Lyriques. She will further return to Savonlinna Opera Festival to revive her successful production of Boris Godunov.
Most recently she directed Norma with conductor Fabio Luisi and set designer Leila Fteita at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Keiser’s Ulisses for Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn and in co-production with Theater Heidelberg at Winter in Schwetzingen, Die Fledermaus, a collaboration with the Conservatoire National Superieure de Musique Paris together with conductor Lucy Legay and in co-operation with Philharmonie de Paris, Macbeth (Opéra de Dijon), Turandot (Theater Regensburg) and Pallavicino’s opera Le Amazzoni nell’isole fortunate together with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset (Musikfestpiele Potsdam Sanssouci). Other Productions include La Traviata (Komische Opera Berlin), Rusalka (Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra de Limoges), Ariodante (Drottningholms Slottsteater), Jenůfa (Greek National Opera Athens), Il Corsaro (Palau de les Arts Valencia), Lakmé (Malmö Opera), Francesca da Rimini (Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg), Elektra (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon), Semiramide (Opéra national de Lorraine) and La Wally (Teatro Comunale Bolzano).
Elsewhere, Nicola Raab has staged I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bergen Opera), von Einem’s Jesu Hochzeit (Carinthischer Sommer), Written on Skin, Death and the Maiden and The Cunning Little Vixen (Theater St. Gallen), John Adams’ A Flowering Tree (Goeteborgs Operan, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon), Boris Godunov (Savonlinna Operafestival), Lohengrin (Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen), Béatrice et Bénédict by Berlioz and A Flowering Tree (Chicago Opera Theatre), Don Chisciotte by Francesco Conti and Artaxerxes by Leonardo Vinci (Musikwerkstatt Wien), The Marathon by Isidora Zebeljan (Bregenzer Festspiele), Parsifal (Estonian National Opera), Tristan und Isolde (Novaya Opera Moscow) as well as Massenet’s Thaïs (Goeteborgs Operan, Finnish National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro del Liceu 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, 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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