Laura Berman succeeds Georges Delnon
The designated director of Theater Basel, Andreas Beck, has been able to recruit dramaturge and curator Laura Berman as opera director from the 2015/16 season.
pd. Born in the US, the 54-year-old was Artistic Director of the series until 2012 Art from the time of the Bregenz Festival. Previously, Laura Berman was head music dramaturge at the Theater Freiburg and freelance dramaturge for the Wiener Festwochen, the Bavarian State Opera, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Berliner Festspiele, the ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Zurich Ballet.
Laura Berman currently runs the artist and project agency Laura Berman_Next.
In 2013, she produced new operas by Ben Frost and Shara Worden, two artists from the alternative pop scene. This year, Laura Berman is preparing three new music theater productions for the Schauspielhaus Wien. In 2013, she was also a freelancer at Pro Helvetia, where she researched new music theater in Switzerland.
How the Theater Basel the designated director Andreas Beck is looking forward to this collaboration: "Laura Berman, like me, has found the focus of her theater work in recent years in the contemporary. In her, I have long found a competent and highly experienced colleague who has a broad knowledge of opera and modern dance as well as contemporary composers. Thinking about the repertoire not from a classical position, but from the art of our time, from the contemporary artist or piece of art - whether in opera or drama - is fundamental for me in the programming of Theater Basel"
