Bruno Berger-Gorski, a German director with Polish roots, lives in Vienna and Köln. He graduated from the University of Vienna with a Master’s degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies. Berger-Gorski’s special interests are contemporary music as well as discoveries and rediscoveries of composers who were labelled “degenerate” and were unjustly forgotten.
Next upcoming premier: “ACIS AND GALATEA” /Händel on 2nd of april at the Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas in the Frame of the Bachtage.
“EL REY DE HARLEM” / Henze with Libretto of Garcia Lorca for Sevilla / Tenerife 2027
“LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR” with Jessica Pratt for Opera Las Palmas, 2027
He has staged more than 100 works of music theatre worldwide at renowned opera houses such as the Hamburg State Opera ( La Cenerentola), the Bonn Opera ( Rigoletto, Der Garten /Josef Tal, Conversation with a Stone/ Ella Milch-Sheriff) , Aachen ( Maria di Rohan /Donizetti) , Trier ( Rheinnixen /Offenbach als dt.E.A., Lakme, Die Weisse Rose / U.Zimmermann) and Magdeburg ( Don Carlo), at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires ( Rosenkavalier), at the Liceu in Barcelona ( La Forza), in Lucca and Bergamo (Don Giovanni) , at the TNL in Luxembourg ( Somone is going to come/ Knut Vaage-Jon Fosse), in Sao Paulo ( Betrothal in a Monastery), at the Amazonas Festival in Manaus/Brazil ( Condor, Norma), at the Teresa Carreno in Caracas ( Lohengrin), Teatro Solis in Montevideo ( Elisier), at the National Theatre Prague ( Norma) and the Prague State Opera ( Barbiere), at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami (Magic Flute), in Austin/Texas (Cav/Pag), in Mumbai (Tosca), at the National Theatre in Athens ( Mesdames de La Halle) and Thessaloniki ( Boheme) , in Ashkelon/Israel ( Somson), Tel Aviv ( Mahagonny, Golden Dragon/Peter Eötvös) at the Seoul Arts Center in Korea ( The Bat), at the State Opera in Kazan (Trovatore), several times at the Opera Zuid in Maastricht ( La Fille du Regiment, Händel u Gretel) and in Bergen/Norway ( Samson, Manon, Tosca, Carmen, 7 Deadly Sens /Kurt Weill, Les Contes d`Hoffmann, Nabucco), in Budapest (La Voix humaine), in Wroclaw ( Macbeth) and Katowice ( La Rondine), in Oviedo (Tannhäuser, Otello), in Tenerife ( Matrimonio Secreto, Giulio Cesare) and at the Alexander Theatre in Helsinki ( Figaro) as well as in Switzerland in Lucerne ( L´Italiana) in Biel-Bienne two chamber operas Lohengrin/ Salvatore Sciarrino and Radames /Peter Eötvös, which were invited to Bolzano for the OPERA 21 festival.
Berger-Gorski has staged several productions in Salzburg ( La Boheme at the Grosse Festspielhaus, Chamberopera Der Liebesfluch about Georg Trakl with Felix Kammerer ) and at the Vienna Chamber Opera ( Barted Bride, Figaro, Riemannlexikon/Tom Johnson), Theater Schönbrunn Vienna ( Titus) and the Konzerthaus ( Matrimonio Secreto), including many first and world premieres with contemporary Composers like Adriana Hölszky, Udo Zimmermann, G. Klebe, K. Vaage, M. Trojahn, T. Johnson, Ella Milch-Sheriff, Peter Eötvös, C.Kerger, Salvatore Sciarrino and Josef Tal. His productions of the Austrian premiere of Kurt Weill’s “Der Silbersee” art the Jugendstiltheater Vienna and “Baruch’s Silence” in Fürth 2015 by the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff have received national attention in the press and among experts.
In Esch (Luxembourg) and Bonn, Berger-Gorski staged the contemporary chamber operas “Garten” by Josef Tal and Ella Milch-Sheriff’s “Conversation with a Stone” with conductor Marino Formenti. In 2017 Berger-Gorski was invited by the Dallas Opera (USA) for a new production of “Samson et Dalila” with Emmanuel Villaume and staged in Salzburg the scenic world premiere of the chamber opera “Homage to Else Lasker- Schüler” by Josef Tal at the Museum der Moderne and the Synagogue Salzburg with Marko Feingold, which was invited to the Jaffa Festival in Tel Aviv and the Jewish Festival in Krakow.
In 2019 Berger-Gorski staged the Israeli debut of the chamber opera “The Golden Dragon” by Peter Eötvös at the Gesher Theatre in Tel Aviv and was invited with this production to the Bartok-Plusz Festival in Miskolc as the Hungarian premiere. He also staged the rarely performed works “Pepito”, “Ehemann vor der Türe” at the Volksbühne Köln for the Offenbach Year. For the 200th anniversary of Beethoven, Berger-Gorski was invited to the Košice State Theatre for an inaugural production of “Fidelio”.
In 2020, during the Corona pandemic, he produced and directed the contemporary Roma chamber operas “Rromano Kidipe” by Adrian Gaspar and “Wier schemen unz” by Koloman Polak about Roma contemporary witnesses which survived the Holocaust. Both chamber operas were broadcast worldwide as part of the IHRA by the Berlin Foreign Office. In 2021 Berger-Gorski staged “Rromano Kidipe” and “Papusza” by Adrian Gaspar in Vienna and “La Rondine”/Puccini for Opera Bytom /Kattowice (Poland) in co-operation with the Staatstheater Meiningen.
2022 Berger-Gorski was invited to direct “Lucia di Lammermoor” in Deagu/Korea and also directed “Mahagonny Songspiel”/Weill for Vienna, the jewish festival in Krakow and in Tel Aviv. In May 2023 Bruno Berger-Gorski directed a new “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Jessica Pratt and Xabier Anduaga at the Opera Las Palmas. In september 2023 Berger-Gorski was invited by the Opera-Festival in Belem /Brasil to direct “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Brasilian artists and Scenes of Kurt Weill in the Frame of a Lecture about jewish Composers supported by the austrian Embassador Mr. Stefan Scholz. In May 2024 he was invited back to Las Palmas for “Roberto Devereux” /Donizetti with Yolanda Auyuanet as “Elisabeth I”.
2025 he directed “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” / Händel for Teatro Guimera in Tenerife with Ottavio Dantone and the successfull production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” from Las Palmas / Gran Canaria was invited with Jessica Pratt at Teatro Verdi in Triest, conducted by Daniel Oren. Opera Wroclaw invited 2025 Berger-Gorski for a new interpretation of Moniuszko`s “Straszny Dwor” and for Oslo, Copenhagen and Vienna he directed the Chamberopera “Someone is going to come” from Knut Vaage / Jon Fosse with the Ensemble Insimul, Stavanger. In Las Palmas Bruno Berger-Gorski directed 2026 “Acis and Galatea”/ Händel for the international Bachtage.
2027 Berger-Gorski is invited for a Chamber-Opera “El REY DE HARLEM” of Hans Werner Henze/Garcia Lorca in Sevilla and his famous production of “Lucia” with Jessica Pratt is invited back in Las Palmas . With Musiktheater Wien he will produce another unknown Opera from formal “verfemte” Composer for Trieste.