Who is Who
Intendant:Elisabeth Sobotka
Personal advisor to the intendant:Antje Werkmeister
Personal assistant to the intendant:Barbara Krüger
FSj Kultur: Fenja Jansen
General music director:Christian Thielemann
Personal assistant to the general musical director:Amelie Artmann
Assistant to the general musical director:Tim Fluch
Managing director:Ronny Unganz
Office of the managing director:Sandra Belinic
Artistic director:Tobias Hasan
Orchestra director and artistic director:Michael Csar
Assistant of the artistic director :Michaela-Natalie Moritsch
Artistic production management:Morten Mikkelsen
Artistic operation office:Angela Funk (Head), Christina Seiffert, Lars Kieper
Study direction:Klaus Sallmann
Soloists repetiteur:Markus Appelt, Elias Corrinth, Yury Ilinov, Albert Mena, Satomi Nishi, Michele Rovetta
Maestro suggeritore:Antony Shelley
Prompter / language coach:Serena Malcangi (Guest), Anne-Lisa Nathan (Guest)
Staff producers:José Darío Innella, Marcin Łakomicki, Katharina Lang, Tabatha McFadyen, Caroline Staunton
Head of stage management:Felix Rühle
Stage management:Elisabeth Esser, Louis Schanelec, Leni Schnelle
Lightning inspective:Julia Berghoff, Clara Aimée Lindemann
Supernumeraries:Natalie Gehrmann (Head), Daniel von Krottnaurer
Representatives small professionals:Liane Oßwald, Jana Timptner, Martina Böckmann, Ralf Stengel
Orchestra manager:Christoph Fiedler
Orchestra office:Amra Kötschau-Krilic, Sören Fiedler (Schilpp)
1st Stage manager:Uwe Timptner
Stage manager:Nicolas van Heems, Martin Szymanski, Mike Knorpp, Marian Lazar
Choir director:Dani Juris
Debuty director:Gerhard Polifka
Choir assistence:Chris Cartner
Choir manager:Tanja Binggeli
Choir office:Sabine Lefeber
Head:Detlef Giese, Olaf A. Schmitt
Dramaturge:Elisabeth Kühne, Christoph Lang, Rebecca Graitl
Staff:Steffi Blumenthal
Library:Benedikt Fassbender (head), Lilli Mannes, Christine Schaefer
Head:Nadine Grenzendörfer
Staff:Anja Fürstenberg, Linda Grizfeld, Nina Sophie Schwarz (FSJ)
Director of the Opernkinderorchestra:Giuseppe Mentuccia
Head of Kinderopernhaus:Regina Lux-Hahn
Staff:Barbara Steinbeck (Coordination Kinderoper-AGs), Michelle Jock (Administration), Senta Baßler, Viktoria Durczok, Gesa Geue, Laura Gerloff, Alina Hausmann, Sarah Peters, Kirsten Raven (Organisation/Coordination), Clara Richter (Dramaturgy), Lilli Sturm (FSJ)
Head:Carolin Bitzer (spokeswoman)
Staff:Ella Vandré, Greta Schlotheuber (Social Media)
Video editing:Jenny Bohse
Head:Christian Graf
Staff:Dieter Thomas, Marlene Roth, Dennis Schmidt, Henrieke Hummel (FSJ)
Head:Doriana Holeček (parental replacement for Julia Hanslmeier)
Staff:Marilena Schaffstein, Melike Demirtas
Customer service:Carola Toeppel (head), Janwillem van der Sande, Silvana Greco
Guides:Damià Capella Pereira, Jörg Freyer, Kay Keßner, Luzie Schwentke, Janwillem van der Sande
Ticket service:Petra Zimmer (head), Gero Drake, Lars-Kilian Falk, Mario Gawlik, Sebastian Huhnholz , Stefanie Jordan, Thomas Kantschew, Inga Leisner, Gaby Mannigel, Ines Möhring, Nils Palow, Jana Petsching, Lucie Pilate, Ute Pitschk, Romy Schneider, Bérengère Serdiuk, Uwe Stengel
Anja Gossens
Deputy managing director and head of administration:Caterina Liening
Managing director's personal assistant:Katharina Wichate
Assistant to the management:Anne-Marai Müller
Advisor for organisational development focussed on digital change:Holger Kral
Controlling:Daniel Zagrean
Administration office and counseling:Nadine Hillig
Guest contracts:Andrea Havenstein
Data processing:Philipp Sukrow (head), Lennart Scholz
Post office:Andrea Rademacher-Eisenblätter
Purchase department:Joana Gowin
Storage:Holger Albrecht
Apprentice event management:Svenja-Marie Büge
Technical director: Holger Ackermann
Assistant to the technical director: Linda Günther
Operating engineer: Jörn Dornbusch
Technical management office: Diana Orlet
Staff of technical department:Antje Kittlaus
Lead production: Erik Bayer, Tim Farbowski
Production assistants: Vedran Avramović, Kerstin Koser, Andreas Simon, John Smith, Giorgio Ugolini
Head of stage operations: Sebastian Schwericke
Stage inspector: Alexander Näther
Stage managers: Philip Hain , Torsten Hradecky, Folker Schenk, Annette Schrape, Max Wiepke
Stage technique: Sivakumar Akashkumar, Frank Barth, Sascha Blume, Benjamin Brzoska, Stefan Burkhardt, Stefan Degebrodt, Toni Diehr, Julius Döring, Laurenz Erren, Caspar Gläsche, Pierre Gläsmann, Sven Gröschke, Jirko Gronau, Torsten Großmann, Guido Hahn, Jan Heller, Hendrik Hellmis, Felix Henze, Sebastian Herrschuh, Felix Jedinger, Frank Jurmann, Paula Kanzler, Norbert Kehler, Siegbert Kersten, Dildar Khorsheed, Ingo Kirsch, Michael Klein, Guido Kollaritsch, Frank Krause, Dietmar Kufeld, Paul Lange, Timo Lucka, Fabian Lukawsky, Alexei Muscat, Moreno Rapillo, Markus Rehfeldt, Michael Santos, Jörg Scholtz, Maik Schröder, Kristin Seidel, Axel Schulze, Maria Spiegel, Thomas Trisch, Frank Unverzagt, Sebastian Voigt, Steffen Weber, Frank Wendel, Dominik Wollmann, Michael Worm, Lars Zahsowk, Maximilian Zepplin
Machinery department: Volker Bierbrauer (head), Stephan Broda, Detlef Buschkowski, Tim Louis Deistler, René Förster, Henry Grasse, Sebastian Haedler, Jörg Kaeske, Bettina Kehler-Neuhaus, Sophia Kleinmann, Andreas Rothe, Rene Rönitz, Björn Schauer, Felix Sudmann, Michael Tuschner-Thomas, Fabian Weindorf, Bonifaz Weiß, Thomas Wolf, Georg Ziesch
Rehearsal stage: Matthias Schrape (head), Torsten Dahlhaus, Andreas Ludwig, René Naumann, Carsten Zorn
Apprentices: Alfons Esche, Carla Fröbel, Tom Müller, Finn Neumann, Bastian Schilling, Leopold Starke, Paulina Kessler, Pauline Ritter, Richard Schwabe, Moritz Trier
Transport: Christopher Wiener (head), Kai Doberschütz, Torsten Fugmann, Jan Grapentin, Uwe Siebert, Kay-Michael Ullrich, Björn Vollbrecht, Gerd Wölk, Mike Zimmermann
Theatrical property: Jonathan Dürr (head), Sofie Goldau, Vittorio Greco, Paul Manleitner, Megan Roller, Matthias Roß, Luise Rüdiger, Mandy Schneider, Carola Schulz, Jeannette Trahms, Thorsten Petzold
Sound: Christoph Koch (head, sound engineer), Bernhard Jäger (sound engineer), Johannes Seibt (sound engineer), Ernst Richard Dobbert (sound technology), Malek Schulz (sound technology), Renato Tonini (sound technology)
Lighting | Video: Irene Selka (head), Claus Grasmeder (Lighting manager), Simone Oestreicher (Lighting manager), Stefan Schlagbauer (Lighting manager), Thomas Schüler (Lighting manager), Jan Berg, Anne Eichler, Darleen Ewert, Dirk Falk, Richard Fathke, Ute Giersch, Sven Hoffmann, Paul Jurmann, André Kneier, Alexander Leßmann, Frank Peine, Jana Rauchstädt, Henry Rost, Paul Scholtz, Frank-Rainer Schröder, Ramona Thenagels, Jan Wengrzyk, Jörg Wutzke, Ralf Neumann (Video), Florian Granzow (Video), Oscar Joschko, Luca Soujon
Facility and operating services: Peer Pfisterer (head)
Facility infrastructure: René Karasch
Office of facility and operating services: Nicole Zimmer
Modernization and refurbishment: Hans-Peter Friedländer
Shift managers: Karsten Bergander, Jörg Engel, Peter Miedzinski (Electrical Supervisor), Frank Ullrich
Staff: Silvio Adam, Jonas Biermann, Michael Birr, Jens Bobach, Oliver Horchler, Michael Kahl, Torsten Kaiser, Klaus Kazmierczak, Toni Kleine, Frank Koch, Raymond Mehlis, Thomas Mohns, Mehmet Özturan, Jan Petrich, Klaus-Dieter Poppek, Frank Pramor, Matthias Schmidt, Marc Steinberg, Olaf Schmidt, Philine Tepper
Apprentice: Hüseyin Adigüzel
Senior porter: Harald Hessel
Costume director:Birgit Wentsch
Deputy head costume director:Isabel Theißen
Office:Jutta Engelmann
Production assistance:Juliane Becker, Katja Nölte-Engelmann, Reto Keiser, Carsta Köhler, Jasmin Schönrock, Petra Weikert
Costume inventory manager:Jeannette Jürgens
Repertoire tailoring department senior wardrobe mistress:Birgit Hargesheimer
Wardrobe mistress:Ute Nitsche
Tailors | tailoresses | dressmakers:David Berg, Kathrin Harder, Alexander Hein, Julia Germann, Anke Pfeiffer, Henriette Porsdorf, Jacqueline Schönherr
Head of costume operating department:Kirsten Roof
Dressers:Mareen Bildt, Elisabeth Bölke, Bettina Bund, Susann Dathe, Ines Faerber, Anke Hermes, Silke Herrmann, Ute Hinz, Katrin Kamitz, Christina Kiesewette, Achmed Kirsch, Natalia Leinweber, Heike Liebig-Schwenke, Jacqueline Petzold, André Reichel, Chloé Schöneck, Ilona Schwabe, Minyi Wang, Tetiana Wetzel
Senior makeup artist:Jean-Paul Bernau
Deputy head makeup artist:Anja Rimkus
Makeup artists:Joy Bischoff, Heike Eger, Nina Gesell, Karsten Handt, Lydia Hauser, Juliane Hübner, Claudia Klein, Mascha Kurth, Lara Mauszewski, Tanja Metzkow, Josphine Müller, Sophie Neurohr, Ina Ney, Sandra Oehme, Janina Schmidt, Josephina Schmidtke, Rebecca Schulz, Anne Stetzer, Frauke Stoffels, Lorenza Zeller, Christine Zobel, Stefanos Chouliaras (apprentice)
Women's ensemble:Katharina Kammerloher, Anna Kissjudit, Clara Nadeshdin, Evelin Novak, Marina Prudenskaya, Adriane Queiroz, Anna Samuil, Natalia Skrycka
Men's ensemble:Friedrich Hamel, Florian Hoffmann, Arttu Kataja, Siyabonga Maqungo, Jaka Mihelač, Andrés Moreno García, Gyula Orendt, David Oštrek, Carles Pachon, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Andreas Schager, Roman Trekel
Head:Boris Anifantakis
Members:Dionysios Avgerinos, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein, Friedrich Hamel, Taehan Kim, Maria Kokareva, Regina Koncz, Johan Krogius, Gonzalo Quinchachual, Rebecka Wallroth
Musical director of the children's choir:Vinzenz Weissenburger (Guest)
Assistant:Johannes Schultz (Guest)
Choir director:Dani Juris
Debuty director:Gerhard Polifka
Choir assistence:Chris Cartner
Choir manager:Tanja Binggeli
Choir office:Sabine Lefeber
1st Soprano:Rosana Barrena, Minjou von Blomberg, Katharine Bolding, Yang-Hee Choi, Anne Halzl, Indira Hechavarría, Alena Karmanova, Jinyoung Kim, Miso Kim, Christina Liske, Andrea Réti, Courtney Ross, Natalia Stawicka, Stefani Szafranski, Olga Vilenskaia
2nd Soprano:Michèle Cusson, Lotta Hultmark, MinJi Kim, TaeEun Kim, Dominika Kocis-Müller, Regina Köstler-Motz, Haeyun Lee, Konstanze Löwe, Julia Mencke, Hanaa Oertel
1st Alto:Ileana Booch-Gunescu, Kinga Borowska, Miho Kinoshita, Nele Kovalenkaite, Stephanie Lesch, Andrea Möller, Karin Rohde, Viktoria Weber, Mirjam Widmann, Hannah Wighardt, Tetiana Yesypova
2nd Alto:Verena Allertz, Veronika Bier, Elke Engel, Bok-Hee Kwun, Nataliia Pyzhianova, Olivia Saragosa, Christiane Schimmelpfennig, Claudia Tuch, Maria-Elisabeth Weiler, Anna Woldt
1st Tenor:Hubertus Aßmann, Andreas Bornemann, Seong-Hoon Hwang, Michael Kim, Motoki Kinoshita, Soongoo Lee, Jin Hak Mok, David Oliver, Dmitri Plotnikov, Jaroslaw Rogaczewski, Andreas Werner
2nd Tenor:Peter Aude, Javier Bernardo, Carsten Böhm, Günther Giese, Jens-Uwe Hübener, Christoph Lauer, Stefan Livland, Felipe Martin, Sönke Michaels, Wagner Moreira, Frank Szafranski, Hong Zhou
1st Bass:Dominik Engel, Alejandro Greene, Georg Grützmacher, Ireneus Grzona, Mike Keller, Sungjin Lee, Jaroslaw Mielniczuk, Jens-Eric Schulze, Sergej Shafranovich, Thomas Vogel
2nd Bass:Wolfgang Biebuyck, Ben Bloomfield, Bernhard Halzl, Insoo Hwoang, Artur Just, Yohan Kim, Andreas Neher, Thomas Neubauer, Marko Ostojic, Marcel Raschke
Choir board:Bernhard Halzl, Felipe Martin, Verena Allertz
Honorary member:Ernst Stoy
Honorary head conductor:Daniel Barenboim
Honorary conductor:Pierre Boulez †, Zubin Mehta, Otmar Suitner †
Orchestra director and artistic director:Michael Csar
Orchestra manager:Christoph Fiedler
Orchestra office:Amra Kötschau-Krilic, Sören Fiedler (Schilpp)
1st Stage manager:Uwe Timptner
Stage manager:Nicolas van Heems, Martin Szymanski, Mike Knorpp, Marian Lazar
Orchestra academy:Beatrice Papaianulis
Orchestra comitee:Christoph Anacker, Noémi Makkos (Vorsitz), Milan Ritsch, Volker Sprenger, Isa von Wedemeyer
Honorary members:Prof. Lothar Friedrich, Thomas Küchler, Victor Bruns †, Gyula Dalló †, Bernhard Günther †, Wilhelm Martens †, Ernst Hermann Meyer †, Egon Morbitzer †, Hans Reinicke †, Otmar Suitner †, Ernst Trompler †, Richard von Weizsäcker †
1st Violins:Lothar Strauß (1st Concertmaster), Wolfram Brandl (1st Concertmaster), Jiyoon Lee (1st Concertmaster), Yuki Manuela Janke (Concertmaster), Petra Schwieger, Tobias Sturm, Susanne Schergaut, Ulrike Eschenburg, Juliane Winkler, Susanne Dabels, Michael Engel, Henny-Maria Rathmann, Titus Gottwald, André Witzmann, Eva Römisch, David Delgado, Andreas Jentzsch, Serge Verheylewegen, Rüdiger Thal, Martha Cohen, Darya Varlamova, Jueyoung Yang, Katarzyna Szydlowska (Guest), Hani Song (Guest)
2nd Violins:Knut Zimmermann (1 st Concertmaster), Krzysztof Specjal (1 st Concertmaster), Lifan Zhu (1 st Concertmaster), Mathis Fischer (Concertmaster), Sascha Riedel, André Freudenberger, Beate Schubert, Franziska Dykta, Sarah Michler, Milan Ritsch, Barbara Glücksmann, Laura Volkwein, Ulrike Bassenge, Yunna Weber, Laura Perez Soria, Nora Maria Hapca
Violas:Felix Schwartz (1 st Principal), Yulia Deyneka (1 st Principal), Volker Sprenger (1 st Principal), Holger Espig (Principal), Joost Keizer (Principal), Katrin Schneider, Sophia Reuter, Clemens Richter, Boris Bardenhagen, Wolfgang Hinzpeter, Helene Wilke, Stanislava Stoykova
Violoncellos:Andreas Greger (1 st Principal), Sennu Laine (1 st Principal), Claudius Popp (1 st Principal), Nikolaus Popa (Principal), Alexander Kovalev (Principal), Isa von Wedemeyer, Claire Sojung Henkel, Ute Fiebig, Tonio Henkel, Dorothee Gurski, Johanna Helm, Aleisha Verner, Minji Kang
Double basses:Otto Tolonen (1 st Principal), Christoph Anacker (1 st Principal), Joachim Klier (Principal), Axel Scherka, Robert Seltrecht, Alf Moser, Harald Winkler, Martin Ulrich, Kaspar Loyal
Harps:Alexandra Clemenz (Principal), Stephen Fitzpatrick (Principal)
Flutes:Thomas Beyer (1 st Principal), Claudia Stein (1 st Principal), Claudia Reuter (Associate Principal), Christiane Hupka, Christiane Weise, Simone Bodoky-van der Velde (Principal Piccolo)
Oboes:Gregor Witt (1 st Principal), Fabian Schäfer (1 st Principal), Cristina Gómez Godoy (1 st Principal), Charlotte Müseler, Tatjana Winkler (Principal English Horn), Florian Hanspach-Torkildsen (Principal English Horn)
Clarinets:Matthias Glander (1 st Principal), Tibor Reman (1 st Principal), Tillmann Straube (Associate Principal), Unolf Wäntig (Principal E-flat), Hartmut Schuldt (Principal Bass Clarinet), Sylvia Schmückle-Wagner (Principal Bass Clarinet)
Bassoons:Holger Straube (1 st Principal), Mathias Baier (1 st Principal), Ingo Reuter (1 st Principal), Sabine Müller, Frank Heintze (contra bassoon), Robert Dräger (contra bassoon)
French horns:Ignacio García (1 st Principal), Hanno Westphal (1 st Principal), Axel Grüner (Associate Principal), Markus Bruggaier, Thomas Jordans, Sebastian Posch, Frank Mende, Frank Demmler
Trumpets:Christian Batzdorf (1 st Principal), Mathias Müller (1 st Principal), Peter Schubert (Associate Principal), Felix Wilde, Noemi Makkós
Trombones:Joachim Elser (1 st Principal), Filipe Alves (1 st Principal), Ralf Zank (Associate Principal), Jürgen Oswald (Basstrombone), Henrik Tißen (Basstrombone)
Tubas:Thomas Keller (Principal Bass tuba), Sebastian Marhold (Principal Bass tuba)
Timpani/ Percussions:Torsten Schönfeld (Principal Timpani), Stephan Möller (Principal Timpani), Dominic Oelze (Principal Timpani, Principal Percussion), Matthias Marckardt (Principal Percussion), Martin Barth (Principal Percussion), Andreas Haase (Percussion), Matthias Petsch (Percussion)
Organisational management:Beatrice Papaianulis
1st Violins:Rachel Buquet, Chih-En Kuo, Sophie Wang, Naeun Yoo
2nd Violins:Albina Khaibullina, Yan Li, Masha Mershon, Louise Wehr
Violas:Guilherme Marques Caldas, Carlos Nicolay Roldán, Christina Andrea Scap, Yewon Seo
Violoncellos:Mahiro Kurokawa
Double basses:Jakub Zoń, Alberto Javier Habas Sabariego
Harps:Clara Simarro
Oboes:Boyi Ruan
Clarinets:Ramona Katzenberger
French horns:Gustav Borggrefe
Trumpets:Samuel Beagley
Tubas:Yuki Takebayashi
Timpani/ Percussions:Joseph Protze
Daniel Barenboim, Plácido Domingo, Berliner Kammertänzer Oliver Matz, KS Waltraud Meier, KS Deborah Polaski, Primaballerina Steffi Scherzer, Ernst Stoy, KS Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Vorstand
Generaldirektor:Georg Vierthaler
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Intendantin:Elisabeth Sobotka
Geschäftsführender Direktor:Ronny Unganz
Staatsballett Berlin
Intendant:Christian Spuck
Geschäftsführende Direktorin:Jenny Mahr
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Intendant:Dietmar Schwarz
Geschäftsführender Direktor:Thomas Fehrle
Komische Oper Berlin
Co-Intendantin, Geschäftsführende Direktorin:Susanne Moser
Co-Intendant, Operndirektor:Philip Bröking
Bühnenservice
Geschäftsführung:Rolf D. Suhl
Personalrat der Stiftung Oper in Berlin
Vorsitzender:Rainer Döll
1. Stellvertretender Vorsitzender:Oliver Wulff
2. Stellvertretender Vorsitzender:Christoph Lauer
Vorstand:Rainer Döll, Oliver Wulff, Christoph Lauer, Tilo Morgner, Tobias Raue
Mitglieder:Gunther Engelmann, Andreas Frohnhoefer, Christin Pinzer, Andrea Rammisch, Florian Scherer, Lothar Strauß, Benedikt Leithner, Stephan Rügamer, Annette Schrape, Heike Stiebler
Sekretariat:Esther Gorgoni
Frauenvertretung:Sabine Fleischer
Vertreterin:Anna Tunkara
Schwerbehindertenvertretung:Christoph Lauer
Vetreter:Andreas Frohnhoefer
Jugendvertretung, 1. Vorsitzende:Paulina Kessler
Vertreterin:Lea Hase