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Michael Bauer Lighting designer
Biography
Michael Bauer has been Head of Lighting at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 1998. At the company, he has collaborated with directors including Luc Bondy, David Bösch, August Everding, Andreas Dresen, Claus Guth, Richard Jones, Yannis Kokkos, Peter Konwitschny, Jürgen Rose, and Roland Schwab.
He has also worked at opera houses in Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Madrid, London, San Francisco, New York, Milan, Antwerp, Ghent, Basel, Athens, St Petersburg, Paris, Bilbao, Rome, and Lisbon. A regular collaborator of Calixto Bieito, he has designed the lighting for productions including Lohengrin, Hänsel und Gretel, Lear, Tosca, The Nose, L'elisir d'amore, Die Zauberflöte, Peter Grimes, Hanjo, Semele, Of One Blood, and Die Walküre in Munich; Manon, Falstaff, Fidelio, and Monster's Paradise in Hamburg; Rigoletto, Irrelohe, and Bluthaus in Lyon; Tristan und Isolde in Vienna; Tannhäuser in Leipzig; War and Peace in Budapest; Maometto II in Naples; Idomeneo and Khovanshchina in Geneva; and Das Rheingold in Munich.
During the 2026–2027 season, he designs the lighting for Macbeth in Hamburg and Siegfried in Munich.
At the Paris Opera: Werther (2009); La Cenerentola (2011); Simon Boccanegra (2018); Faust (2021); Das Rheingold (2025); Die Walküre (2025); Siegfried (2026).
Currently in
- Opéra Bastille
- from 08 to 18 October 2026
