New management of the Lucerne Theater takes shape
Benedikt von Peter, the new artistic director of the Lucerne Theater, has made his first personnel decisions. They concern dance, music theater and deputies.
Kathleen McNurney will remain Artistic Director of the "Tanz Luzerner Theater" company. Brigitte Heusinger, currently Opera Director at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, will manage the music theater division together with Benedikt von Peter and assist him in artistic matters as Deputy Director.
Kathleen McNurney has led the "Tanz Luzerner Theater" company since the beginning of the 2009/10 season and can thus continue her development work. According to the theater's press release, she has brought both renowned choreographers and up-and-coming talents to the Lucerne Theater and shown audiences a variety of contemporary dance languages.
Brigitte Heusinger from Hamburg was an opera dramaturge at Theater Basel from 2006 to 2012. There she worked with Christoph Marthaler, Hans Neuenfels and Philipp Stölzl, among others. She has been opera director at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken since 2012.
