Bruno Weil

Guest conducting many of the major international orchestras and opera houses and numerous recordings spread Bruno Weil’s worldwide fame as one of the leading conductors of music of Viennese Classicism. As a master student of Hans Swarowsky and Franco Ferrara, he was early decorated with interntaional awards and in 1981 became Germany’s youngest General Music Director in the city of Augsburg. He resigned his post as General Music Director in Duisburg in 2002 for being principal guest conductor of the Tafelmusik Orchestra and of Cappella Coloniensis. He was appointed conducting Professor at Munich music university. Until 2010 he also was music director of the Carmel Bach Festival (California) and the festival “Klang & Raum” in Irsee (Bavaria). The “ECHO Klassik” award he received in 1991 as conductor of the year and later on for some of his CD releaases, lately for Haydn’s London Symphonies. In 2004 he made the first recording of a Wagner opera on original instruments “The Flying Dutchman”.

Beverly Blankenship

While being present with her productions of contemporary theatre on festivals between Australia, Vietnam and London, the Austrian-American director has sucessfully ventured upon opera productions in Germany and Austria. Blankenship is a lecturer at different universities and academies like Linz, Innsbruck, Sydney, Tel Aviv and Munich and holds classes in Zurich, Linz and Vienna. She is living in Berlin. .

Christoph Wagenknecht

After volunteering at Bremen Theatre Wagenknecht worked as stage designer for the State Theatre Wilhelmshaven and the Schlosstheater Celle, before Braunschweig, Heidelberg, Nürnberg, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and Frankfurt marked his way. Since 1991 Wagenknecht is responsible for numerous décors for theatre and opera productions at Bern Theatre (Switzerland).