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Opera director at the Darmstadt State Theater
Nicola Raab has been the new opera director at the Darmstadt State Theater since January. She succeeds Sören Schuhmacher, who has been an artistic operational director since 2019 and has headed the opera division since March 2024. It will be director of the Hagen Theater from the 2025/2026 season.
As a director with great sensitivity, detailed character work and visual feeling, Nicola Raab has achieved international recognition. She created a lot of attention at the leading European opera houses, such as Puccinis Edgar at Opera Nice Cöte D 'Azur and Bellinis Norma at the Della Valle d'Itria festival. Nicola Raab received coveted prizes for her work: her staging of Written on Skin for the Teatro Comunale Bolzano was awarded the "Premio Franco Abbiati" by the guild of Italian music critics in 2016. In 2013 she received the Arets Reumert Prize for the best Danish opera production for Otello at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.
“Working with a fixed singer ensemble, shaping the season and having a place where 30 years of experience as a freelance music theater director can flow together. I am particularly pleased to be able to work with wonderful people in this great theater building every day, ”says Nicola Raab about her new task as an opera director in Darmstadt.
“Nicola Raab staged from Finland to Portugal in many opera houses in Europe, in Moscow, Chicago, Los Angeles and Mexico City. She is an exciting director and will continue to show it in Darmstadt and in other places. I find your wide international experience horizon, your flair and your large network incredibly valuable for a diverse, exciting music theater at the Darmstadt State Theater and for a contemporary development of the theater structures, ”says Karsten Wiegand, director of the Darmstadt State Theater.
(Darmstadt - ST)
Nicola Raab. Photo: Mats Bäcker
