Wieler extends contract with Stuttgart Opera
As announced by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Swiss-born Jossi Wieler will remain Artistic Director of the Stuttgart State Opera until 2018.
Under Wieler's direction, the Stuttgart Opera has regularly received excellent ratings for its productions and singers in surveys of theater critics in recent years and has won numerous awards and prizes, writes the ministry.
Jossi Wieler's next directorial work for the Stuttgart Opera is currently in development: Mark Andre's first opera "wunderzaichen" will premiere on March 2.
Jossi Wieler was born in Kreuzlingen/Switzerland in 1951. He studied directing at the Theater Department of Tel Aviv University. He has been artistic director of Oper Stuttgart since 2011/12 and recently co-directed the new Stuttgart productions of Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos" and Denisov's "Der Schaum der Tage" together with Sergio Morabito. In the current 2013/14 season, the world premiere of Mark Andre's first opera will be followed by a new production of "Tristan und Isolde".
