Nicola Raab

General Management
Biography
Nicola Raab has in recent years earned international acclaim as a director of great sensitivity, detailed character work and visual flair. Her production of Written on Skin at Teatro Comunale Bolzano was awarded the prestigious Premio Franco Abbiati by the Guild of Italian Music Critics in 2016. In 2013, she received the Arets Reumert Prize for Best Danish Opera Production for Otello at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

The season 2026/27 will see a revival of Verdi’s Edgar at Teatro Regio Torino, a co-production with Opéra de Nice, where it premiered in 2024, and a new production of Handel’s Solomon for the Händelfestpiele Halle.

Most recent engagements include Janáček’s Jenůfa at GöteborgsOperan, Hänsel und Gretel at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Traetta’s Ifigenia in Tauride with Les Talens Lyriques at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and a revival of her acclaimed production of Boris Godunov at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

Her diverse repertoire includes Macbeth (Opéra de Dijon), Turandot (Theater Regensburg), Norma (Festival della Valle d’Itria, with Fabio Luisi and Leila Fteita), Ulisses by Reinhard Keiser (Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, in co-production with Theater Heidelberg), Die Fledermaus (Philharmonie de Paris), Carlo Pallavicino’s Le Amazzoni nell’isole fortunate (Musikfestpiele Potsdam Sanssouci with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset),  Rusalka (Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra de Limoges), Ariodante (Drottningholms Slottsteater), Jenůfa (Greek National Opera), 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).

She has also been invited to leading houses and festivals including the Bregenzer Festspiele, Komische Oper Berlin, Carinthischer Sommer, Bergen Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Estonian National Opera, Finnish National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Palau de les Arts Valencia and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Early in her career, Nicola Raab had a close collaboration with Kammeroper Wien, directing a series of contemporary works including Shostakovich’s Moskau, Tscherjomuschki, Jonathan Dove’s When She Died…, Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, Birtwistle’s The Io Passion, and Britten’s Owen Wingrave.

Complementing her work as a stage director, Raab was recently appointed Head of Opera at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.
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