Tatjana Gürbaca, Direction

Tatjana Gürbaca
Tatjana Gürbaca, born in Berlin, is living in her home town. She studied opera direction at Berlin’s Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“. Her studies of music, drama and dance were extended by master courses especially with Ruth Berghaus. She joined the Graz Opera as a directorial assistant 1998-2001.
Competing for the Ring Award Graz, she was amongst the prized winners. Her directorial debut was Turandot at the Graz Opera. She has worked as a free lancing artist ever since. Her stylistic variety include all epochs of opera, from Purcell, Handel, Hasse, Kraus and Haydn to Hartmann, Dallapiccola, Ligeti, Reimann and Sciarrino.
Mozarts Così fan tutte, inaugurating the Lucerne season in 2004, set one of the early highlights of her career, matched by an outright contemporary Don Giovanni in Bremen in 2019. Being trained both as a theatre maker and as a musician, Tatjana Gürbaca easily transposes historical settings and conflicts into contemporaneity.
Tatjana Gürbaca has worked all over Europe, reaching far out to Bogotá and Novosibirsk, but Germany remained central to for her artistic work. Two highlights led beyond its borders. With Claudio Abbado as her partner, she staged a semi-scenic version of Fidelio at the Lucerne Festival in 2010, and Antwerp’s Vlaamse Opera was the house to present Parsifal in 2013. For this production Tatjana Gürbaca won international recognition as Director of the Year.
Exemplified with Parsifal, Wagner’s musical dramas are Tatjana Gürbaca’s major challenges. She directed Der Ring des Nibelungen by condensing the four titles into a trilogy at the Theater an der Wien in 2017. It is the „second generation“, namely Hagen, Siegfried and Brünnhilde, tob e placed into the center of the cycle.
Having served the State Theatre Mainz as opera director for some seasons, Tatjana Gürbaca concentrated her work on some favored houses. In Zurich she has staged Rigoletto, Aida, Die Zauberflöte, La finta giardiniera, and, highly acclaimed, Werther. Tatjana Gürbaca will open the next season with Boito’s Mefistofele in Amsterdam.




Parsifal Vlaamse Opera


Werther Opernhaus Zürich
Tatjana Gürbaca’s Calendar
December 2023
12.12.2023 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte / Národni Divadlo, Nationaltheater, Prag
15.12.2023 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte / Národni Divadlo, Nationaltheater, Prag
January 2024
19.01.2024 / Jules Massenet: Werther / Opernhaus Zürich
23.01.2024 / Jules Massenet: Werther / Opernhaus Zürich
27.01.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
27.01.2024 / Jules Massenet: Werther / Opernhaus Zürich
27.01.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
31.01.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
February 2024
03.02.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
04.02.2024 / Jules Massenet: Werther / Opernhaus Zürich
04.02.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
06.02.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
08.02.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
09.02.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
12.02.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
14.02.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: Il Trittico / Wiener Staatsoper
15.02.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
17.02.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: Il Trittico / Wiener Staatsoper
18.02.2024 / Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata / Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
20.02.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: Il Trittico / Wiener Staatsoper
23.02.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
24.02.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: Il Trittico / Wiener Staatsoper
March 2024
09.03.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
15.03.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
20.03.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
23.03.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
26.03.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
27.03.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
28.03.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
31.03.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
April 2024
02.04.2024 / Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West / Opéra de Lyon
06.04.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
14.04.2024 / Leoš Janáček: Jenufa / Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg
20.04.2024 / Leoš Janáček: Jenufa / Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg
24.04.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
26.04.2024 / Leoš Janáček: Jenufa / Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg
May 2024
03.05.2024 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte / Národni Divadlo, Nationaltheater, Prag
09.05.2024 / Leoš Janáček: Jenufa / Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg
11.05.2024 / Louise Bertin: Fausto / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
19.05.2024 / Leoš Janáček: Jenufa / Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg
June 2024
16.06.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
20.06.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
23.06.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
28.06.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
July 2024
06.07.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
11.07.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
14.07.2024 / Fromental Halévy: La Juive / Oper Frankfurt
September 2024
11.09.2024 / Leoš Janáček: Jenufa / Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg


Don Giovanni

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