Nicola Panzer

Nicola Panzer Mise en scène

Biography

Nicola Panzer studied opera directing at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre under Götz Friedrich. While completing her studies, she became an assistant director at the Hamburg State Opera, where she continues to work as a guest director.

She has worked with numerous institutions, including Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Royal Ballet and Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, opera houses in Moscow, Tokyo, Antwerp, Tel Aviv, Toronto and São Paulo, as well as the Spoleto, Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals. Since 1998, she has worked as a freelance opera director.

Her productions include Stockhausen’s Aus den sieben Tagen in Hamburg, Hänsel und Gretel in Dortmund, The Bartered Bride in Linz, Nabucco in Immling, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville and The Magic Flute in Daejeon, South Korea, and The Elixir of Love in Rostock. Her collaboration with Robert Wilson began in Hamburg with Cosmopolitan Greetings in 1988 and Parsifal in 1991. Since then, she has co-directed many of his theatre and opera productions. During the 2026–2027 season, she directs Zibuoklė Martinaiytė’s Upside Down in Vilnius.

At the Paris Opera: Turandot (2021).

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