Director
Tatjana Gürbaca, born in Berlin, lives in her home city. She studied directing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and attended Master Classes in music, literature and dance. Tatjana Gürbaca is the last Master student of Ruth Berghaus. Her professional career began in Graz, where she worked as an assistant director from 1998-2001.
She was one of the finalists for the RING AWARD 2000. Her directorial debut was “Turandot” at Oper Graz in 2001 and since then she has worked as a freelance director. The stylistic spectrum of her productions ranges from Handel, Hasse and Kraus to Ligeti, Reimann and Sciarrino. Musically trained as a theatre maker, Tatjana Gürbaca effortlessly transposes historical material and conflicts into the present. True to the texts, she shows ways into the here and now.
Tatjana Gürbaca has worked all over Europe. “Cosí fan tutte” in Lucerne, Munich, Cologne and Prague, “Mazeppa”, “Eugene Onegin”, “The Flying Dutchman” and “Parsifal” at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, “Lohengrin”, “Freischütz”, “Simon Boccanegra”, “Fausto” (Louise Bertin) in Essen, “Simplicius Simplicissimus” and “Das schlaue Füchslein” in Bremen, “Die tote Stadt” and Braunfels’ “Jeanne d’Arc” in Cologne, “La traviata” in Oslo and Amsterdam, “Rigoletto”, “Aida”, “Zauberflöte”, “Le Grand Macabre” and “Werther” at Zurich Opera House, “Jenufa” and “Katja Kabanowa” at the Geneva Opera House and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, “Ulisse” and “La Juive” in Frankfurt, “Rusalka” in Hanover and Oslo, “La fanciulla del West” in Lyon, “Il trittico” at the Vienna State Opera, “Capriccio” and “Alcina” at the Theater an der Wien and the “Ring of the Nibelung”, which was reworked into a trilogy and focused on the fates of the ‘second generation’ with Hagen, Siegfried and Brünnhilde. In the next season, she will premiere Beat Furrer’s music theatre work “Das grosse Feuer” at Zurich Opera House.
The magazine OPERNWELT named her director of the year for “Parsifal” in Antwerp in 2013.
Photo (c) Tobias Kruse Ostkreuz