Vera Nemirova

Vera Nemirova
Вера Немирова
Born1972 (age 53–54)
Sofia, Bulgaria
EducationHochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
OccupationOpera director
AwardsBerliner Kunstpreis

Vera Nemirova (Bulgarian: Вера Немирова, born 1972) is a Bulgarian-German opera director who has worked at major opera houses in Europe, staging productions at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper, Oper Frankfurt, the Salzburg Festival and the Munich Biennale.

Career

Born in Sofia, Nemirova has lived in Germany since 1982. She studied directing music theatre (Musiktheaterregie) at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, taking master classes with Ruth Berghaus and Peter Konwitschny.[1]

Nemirova staged Puccini's La fanciulla del West at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2004. The production featured singers including José Cura, Sylvie Valayre and Alexandru Agache.[2]

At the Vienna State Opera, she staged Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) in 2007.[3] Performances and revivals of the production were conducted by Valery Gergiev, Timur Zangiev and Michael Güttler.[4][5][6] Revivals featured singers including Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Olga Borodina, Elena Guseva, Elena Zaremba, Dmitry Golovnin, Boris Pinkhasovich, Alexey Markov and Monika Bohinec.[7][8]

She directed Verdi's Macbeth at the Vienna State Opera in 2009 and staged Alban Berg's Lulu at the Salzburg Festival in 2010.[1]

From 2010 to 2012, she staged Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Oper Frankfurt.[9][10][11][12]

In 2015, she directed Peter Ruzicka's Hölderlin and Meyerbeer's Vasco da Gama, the original version of L'Africaine, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2016, she staged Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Theater Erfurt.[1]

Other major European opera houses where she worked have included the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Staatsoper Berlin, Theater Magdeburg, the Romanian National Opera, Bucharest, Theater Freiburg, Graz Opera, Hamburg State Opera, and the Luzerner Theater.[1]

She staged Weber's Euryanthe and Verdi's Otello at the Semperoper in Dresden, Hèctor Parra's Das geopferte Leben for the Munich Biennale, Mozart's Idomeneo, Verdi's La traviata and Puccini's La bohème at the Staatstheater Mainz, Verdi's Macbeth, Gounod's Faust and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Bonn Opera, Puccini's Tosca and Ruzicka's Celan at the Theater Bremen, and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Latvian National Opera in Riga.[1]

In Bulgaria, Nemirova staged Shostakovich's Katerina Izmailova at the State Opera Rousse in 2015 and Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier there in 2017, both conducted by Nayden Todorov.[13][14] Nemirova also worked regularly with the State Opera Varna. She directed Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) for the Varna Summer International Music Festival in a production conducted by Pavel Baleff.[15]

She staged Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the State Opera Varna in 2023 and 2024, conducted by Svetoslav Borisov and Rossen Gergov, with singers including Deyan Vatchkov, Sofia Soloviy, Linka Stoyanova and Valeriy Georgiev.[16][17]

In 2025, she directed a new production of Gounod's Faust at the State Opera Varna, conducted by Svetoslav Borisov, with singers including Arthur Espiritu, Reinaldo Droz, Deyan Vatchkov and Martin Tsonev.[18][19]

She also directed Kálmán's operetta Countess Maritza at the State Opera Varna, conducted by Stefan Boyadzhiev.[20]

Awards

The Academy of the Arts in Berlin awarded the Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize) of 2006 to Nemirova.[1]

Publications

  • Die Katze Ivanka, in: Katzenmusik und Katerstimmung: Tierisch-musikalische Geschichten, edited by Elke Heidenreich and illustrated by Rudi Hurzlmeier, Bertelsmann, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-58036-3

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Vera Nemirova". Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "La fanciulla del West – Deutsche Oper Berlin". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Pique Dame – Wiener Staatsoper (2025)". Opera Online. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Pikovaya Dama – Wiener Staatsoper". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "Pique Dame – Wiener Staatsoper Archiv". Wiener Staatsoper. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Pikovaya Dama – Wiener Staatsoper (2025)". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  7. ↑ "The Pique Dame – Wiener Staatsoper (2022)". Opera Online. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  8. ↑ "Pique Dame – Wiener Staatsoper (2025)". Opera Online. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  9. ↑ Pachl, Peter P. (1 November 2010). "In der Walküren-Schule: Fortsetzung von Vera Nemirovas Frankfurter "Ring"-Inszenierung". neue musikzeitung (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  10. ↑ Spinola, Julia (2 November 2010). "Meister Wotan und sein Pumuckl". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  11. ↑ Irurzun, José Mª (21 November 2011). "Fabulous Siegfried and his Aunty: Frankfurt Ring Continues". Seen and Heard International. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  12. ↑ Loomis, George (21 February 2012). "German Operas Bank on Visual Effects". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  13. ↑ "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Katerina Izmailova – State Opera Rousse". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  14. ↑ "Der Rosenkavalier – State Opera Rousse". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  15. ↑ "Pique Dame – Varna Summer International Music Festival". Varna Summer International Music Festival. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  16. ↑ "Der fliegende Holländer – State Opera Varna (2023)". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  17. ↑ "Der fliegende Holländer – State Opera Varna (2024)". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  18. ↑ "Charles Gounod's masterpiece Faust premieres in Varna". Bulgarian National Radio. 26 May 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  19. ↑ "Faust – State Opera Varna". Operabase. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  20. ↑ "Countess Maritza – State Opera Varna". Visit Varna. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
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