Bern management team remains in place until 2029
The Board of Trustees of Bühnen Bern has extended the contracts of its management team for a further four years until summer 2029. Florian Scholz will remain Concert Director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Co-operative Director and Chief Conductor of the Opera Nicholas Carter will step down in summer 2025 after four years in Bern. The Russian conductor Alevtina Ioffe has been appointed as the opera's new chief conductor from summer 2025. Her contract begins in summer 2025 and is initially for four years. She has lived in Berlin since 2022 and conducts regularly at the Komische Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Stuttgart and Gothenburg Opera.
With the new ballet production On the move she introduced herself to the Zurich Opera House audience in December 2022. Born in Moscow, Alevtina Ioffe studied choral conducting, classical singing and piano and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Vladimir Ponkin. For ten years, until 2021, she was music director of the State Opera and Ballet Theater for Young Audiences "Natalia Sats" in Moscow. Between February 2021 and July 2022 she was Music Director of the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg.
By the end of February 2024, Bühnen Bern had already recorded around 14,000 more admissions than at the same time last year. This significantly exceeds even the pre-corona level, according to the press release.
