Change of baton at Konzert Theater St. Gallen
Konzert und Theater St.Gallen has a new director in Jan Henric Bogen. Bogen, who has been working as Opera Director in St.Gallen since the start of the current season, will take over overall responsibility for the four-genre venue from the 2023/2024 season.
Jan Henric Bogen will take up office in August 2023 for the 2023/2024 season; he will continue in his role as Opera Director. At the end of the 2022/2023 season, the current Managing Director Werner Signer will leave Konzert und Theater St.Gallen for reasons of age.
Jan Henric Bogen studied law and musicology in Heidelberg and Cologne. He then worked as a musical theater dramaturge at Theater Hagen, as an artist's agent in Vienna and as a consultant and head stage manager at Staatstheater Nürnberg. He has held teaching positions at the University of Bayreuth, the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding and the International Opera Academy in Ghent. From 2016, he was Deputy Artistic Director of Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp and Ghent. Jan Henric Bogen has been Opera Director at Theater St.Gallen since the current season.
