Ben Baur

Ben Baur hails from Reinheim in southern Hesse and studied at the Berlin-Weißensee College of Art. He debuted as a director in 2014 with Gaetano Donizetti’s »Lucia di Lammermoor« at the Saarbrücken Municipal Theatre where he then also staged Leoš Janáček’s »Kát’a Kabanová« and Giuseppe Verdi’s »La traviata«. This was followed by Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s »Elektra« at Deutsches Theater in Göttingen as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s »Don Giovanni« and Francis Poulenc’s »Dialogues des Carmelites« at the Gelsenkirchen Musiktheater im Revier. He staged Charles Gounod’s »Roméo et Juliette« and Verdi’s »Il trovatore« at the Graz Opera, Vincenzo Bellini’s »Il pirata« at the St Gallen Theatre, Giacomo Puccini’s »La bohème« at the Staatstheater Braunschweig as well as August Enna’s »Cleopatra« at the Danish National Opera.

His work as scene painter and costume designer have additionally taken Ben Baur to many leading theatres and opera houses of Europe, including the Maxim-Gorky-Theatre and Deutsches Theater in Berlin, the Munich Volkstheater, the theatres in Bochum, Zurich and Frankfurt, the Aalto Music Theatre in Essen, Stuttgart State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Cologne Opera, the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles, the Amsterdam National Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, the Dresden Semper Opera, the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London as well as the Burgtheater in Vienna.