Schulz succeeds Homoki in Zurich
Matthias Schulz will take over the directorship of Zurich Opera House from 2025. The 44-year-old
year-old succeeds Andreas Homoki, who has headed the theater since 2012 and is stepping down at his own request.
Schulz is currently Artistic Director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden. He will take up his post in Zurich at the start of the 2025/26 season on August 1, 2025. In the interests of continuity, the Bavarian-born director will be available for an organic handover and induction from August 1, 2024, the opera house writes.
Matthias Schulz was born in 1977 in Bad Reichenhall (Bavaria) and studied piano in Salzburg and economics in Munich. He has a long-standing relationship with the Salzburg Festival. From the age of 22, he worked in various areas and was appointed project manager, concert and media officer and, in 2009, head of concert planning.
In 2012, he moved to the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg as Artistic Director and Commercial Director. In addition to programming the festival and concert programs and other responsibilities in the other two core areas of the foundation, science and museums, his activities as head of finance and human resources also included fundraising, marketing, press relations and media productions.
