XAVIER ZUBER | CH 

He was born in Basel and, after his graduation in Frankfurt/Main, he worked as dramaturge for opera/dance/theatre with Herbert Wernicke, Joachim Schlömer, Jürgen Gosch, Tim Hopkins, Stanislas Nordey, Kazuko Watanabe, Lluis Pasqual, Nigel Lowery, Claudia Stavisky, Heinz Spoerli, James Sutherland and Calixto Bieito at various opera houses, theatres and for festivals; among them are the “Théâtre de la Monnaie” in Brussels, the “Théâtre National de la Colline”, the “Opéra de la Bastille” in Paris, the “Teatre Romea Barcelona”, the “Oper Frankfurt” as well as the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the “Festival d’Aix-en-Provence”. 

Since 2001, he is co-operating closely with Calixto Bieito: „Don Giovanni“, „Trovatore“, „Wozzeck“ and „Jenufa“, „Holländer“ in the field of opera, as well as „Hamlet“ (Edinburgh Festival), „Die Dreigroschenoper“ (Threepenny Opera; Festival Grec Barcelona), „Lear“ (Festival Grec Barcelona) and “Peer Gynt” (Bergen Festival) in theatre productions testify to this. From 1998 to 2000, Zuber was employed at the “Theater Basel” as dramaturge and, in the same function, from 2001 to 2006 at the “Staatsoper Hannover” (state opera). It was there, that he founded the series “zeitoper” (opera of time) that is dedicated to experimental music theatre. From 1996 to 2005 he was visiting lecturer for the department of scenography at the “Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe” (state academy for design). In addition, he supports the “Junge Deutsche Philharmonie” (young German philharmonics) as consultant. Since 2006, Xavier Zuber is employed as first dramaturge at the “Staatsoper Stuttgart”