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Like Flesh — Oper
Kreislaufgebäude, Franck Areal, 📍 Entrance via Mauerstrasse (Höhe Eimeldingerweg)
Kreislaufgebäude, Franck Areal, 📍 Entrance via Mauerstrasse (Höhe Eimeldingerweg)
Sivan Eldar
Komponistin
Sivan Eldar was born in Israel in 1985 and began studying music in Tel Aviv at the age of five, starting with piano and voice. At fifteen, she moved to New Mexico (USA) to continue her training at the United World College, where she studied composition, piano, and ethnomusicology. She pursued her studies at the New England Conservatory (Boston) and then at the University of California, Berkeley where she completed a doctorate in composition under Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion, and Cindy Cox. The first composition in her catalogue is Pisik I, a short piece for voice, hand-clapping, and guitar.
Cordelia Lynn
Libretto
Cordelia is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg. She was the recipient of the Berwin Lee Award 2020 and the Royal Court's Harold Pinter Commission 2017. Like Flesh, her opera with composer Sivan Eldar, won the Fedora Opera Prize 2021. Houses Slide, her piece with composer Laura Bowler, was nominated for an Ivor Award 2022. Cordelia is a MacDowell fellow.
Her recent commission for Headlong, Witch Play, was shortlisted for the 2023 George Devine Award.
Augustin Muller
IRCAM Elektronik
Augustin Muller pursued training at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris from which he received his diploma in 2010. Specialist in computer music and sound diffusion, he has worked in France and abroad with various artists and ensembles, and for concerts and festivals.
Member of l’ensemble Le Balcon since 2008, and part of a generation confronted with the question of the interpretation of mixed repertoires, he has worked at the Ircam since 2010 on projects and concerts, as well as research and new works with numerous composers, musicians and performers. He has been involved in many projects treating the conception of sound, electronics and technology.
Jérémie Bourgogne
IRCAM Klangregie
Jérémie Bourgogne is a sound engineer specializing in contemporary music creation. Holding a master's degree in sound engineering from Université de Bretagne Occidentale (U.B.O.), he joined Ircam in 2011, where he developed his skills in sound spatialization. His expertise covers various fields such as multichannel diffusion, ambisonics, Wave Field Synthesis (WFS), and binaural audio.
Georg Köhler
Musikalische Leitung
Georg Köhler gained international attention as a prizewinner of the 2023 Mahler Competition, following a two-season tenure as Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France—a position extended beyond its standard term at the musicians' request. His work has since included engagements with Staatskapelle Dresden, Münchner Symphoniker, Turku Philharmonic, Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt, and others.
The 2025–26 season will see Georg conduct a wide range of programs, including opera, ballet, and concert works. Featured repertoire will range from Schubert and Britten to living composers like Sivan Eldar, with prominent debuts including orchestras such as SWR Symphonieorchester, Jenaer Philharmonie, and Kärntner Sinfonieorchester Klagenfurt. He will also make his first appearance at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, and return to Sinfonieorchester Basel and Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.
Georg studied at the universities of Stuttgart and Zurich, where he graduated from the class of Prof. Johannes Schlaefli with distinction. Additional formative influences include masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen and David Zinman.
Georg’s leadership is characterized by responsiveness and presence, guided by attentive listening rather than premeditation. Beyond the podium, his curiosity includes audience relations, viewing each performance as a shared exploration. His work reflects the recognition that gesture, sound, and listening are not separate events, but shades in a single continuum.
Dominique Pitoiset
Regie
A theater and opera director, teacher, set designer and actor, Dominique Pitoiset was born in Dijon. In 1988, he met Swiss actress Nadia Fabrizio, with whom he founded the Compagnie Pitoiset. In 1993, he was awarded the Villa Médicis hors les murs prize for his production of Goethe's Urfaust, and spent a year in Italy. He was appointed Director of the Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne in 1996.
He teaches at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan and at the Teatro Stabile School in Turin, where he is associate director. He directed the Shakespearean tetralogy Otello / Macbeth / The Tempest / Love's Labors Lost. He returned to France in 2004 to take charge of the Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, where he founded the École supérieure de théâtre de Bordeaux Aquitaine. In 2014, after an extensive tour of France and abroad, his staging of Cyrano de Bergerac was presented at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe.
Dominique Pitoiset is made an Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His operatic productions include Les Noces de Figaro at the Opéra de Lausanne, L'Isola disabitata, Didon et Énée and Orphée et Eurydice for the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris, Le Tour d'écrou and Salomé at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, and La Bohème at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. He teaches stage design at the Dresden School of Fine Arts and stage direction at the Ernst Busch School in Berlin.
From 2014 to 2020, Dominique Pitoiset is Associate Artist of Bonlieu - Scène nationale d'Annecy. In 2016, he became Professor of Scenography and Dramaturgy at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, and directed Manon Lescaut at the National Theater in Zagreb. Appointed General and Artistic Director of the Opéra de Dijon in January 2021, he staged Hänsel et Gretel, followed by Così fan tutte, Armide and Tosca.
Luca Scarzella
Video
In 1986 Scarzella graduated in Philosophy, from the Department of Aesthetics at the Statale University of Milan, with a thesis on Russian formalism and the cinema of Dziga Vertov. Between 1987 and 1997 he collaborated on a regular basis with Studio Azzurro, a studio factory in Milan with an international reputation in the field of video art. In 1998 he opened StalkerVideo an independent video production laboratory in which he alternated activity as a director with experimental work on the projection and realization of video dramaturgy for music theatre. In 2009 he creates Vertov - video and new media, a new productive reality for continuing and experimenting his work.
The exploration of the possible relationships between video and space (architectural, theatrical, museum), the research of a new kind of dramaturgy in the sense of video linked with the ‘explosive’ language of synchronized programming and new dynamics that are designed by interactive systems, together with the strengthening of the close connections between sound and image are the focus of his current work and research.
Maria Riccarda Wesseling
Die Frau
A highly versatile singer-performer Maria Riccarda Wesseling´s international engagements include appearances in leading roles at the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Liceu Barcelona, the National Opera Amsterdam, the Finnish National Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Lincoln Center New York. Her concert venues include the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Palau Valencia and Barcelona, the Barbican Hall London as well as at the Ruhrtriennale, the Händelfestspiele Halle, the Lincoln Center Festival New York, The Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Athens Festival and the Festival de la Radio France. Her repertoire is stunningly broad and reaches from early baroque to contemporary music, including all style periods within that range. She is working with some of the most acclaimed conductors, stage directors, composers, orchestras and ensembles of our time.
Juliette Allen
Die Studentin
Belgian-English soprano Juliette Allen graduated in 2015 from Liège Royal Conservatoire, where she worked with Helène Bernardy and was awarded a Concertist Diploma at the École Normale de Paris Alfred Cortot in 2017, where her vocal teacher was Daniel Ottevaere. The same year, she was invited to join the Paris based company “Opera Fuoco”, created by David Stern. She was a finalist of the Mâcon International Competition “Les Symphonies d’Automne” 2022.
William Dazeley
Der Förster
William Dazeley was born in Warwickshire and studied at Jesus College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
William is established as one of the leading baritones of his generation, and has appeared at most of the world’s opera houses. Recent operatic roles include title role in a new production of Don Giovanni (Opera North), Captain von Trapp The Sound of Music (Châtelet), Usher The Fall of the House Usher (Göttingen Festival), Thomas Adès’s Totentanz in Warsaw, Ferryman Curlew River (Opéra de Lyon) and The Fall of the House Usher at Welsh National Opera in which he sang the role of L’Ami.
Voces Suaves
Der Wald
Since its foundation in 2012, Voces Suaves has developed from a student ensemble into a specialized and successful early music ensemble. The ensemble regularly performs at major festivals such as the Baroque Days of the Berlin State Opera and the Innsbruck Early Music Festival and can call itself a renowned early music ensemble throughout Europe. Experts particularly appreciate the ensemble’s extraordinary sound culture. Various recordings by Voces Suaves have been released by renowned labels and have been awarded various international prizes.
Voces Suaves works together with top-class instrumental ensembles. With the renowned Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Ensemble Pomo d’Oro and the Swiss ensembles Concerto Scirocco and Capricornus Consort Basel.
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