Education
Bruno Berger-Gorski attended the Albrecht Dürer Gymnasium in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He later attended the University of Vienna, where he studied theater, music and art history.
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Bruno Berger-Gorski
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He lives in Vienna, Cologne and Nuremberg. While still at university he wrote a work on Dirk Doctorate"Ase called Dirk Doctorate"Ase und sein musikdramatisches Werk mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Uraufführung "Einstein, Spuren des Lichts". Berger-Gorski has demonstrated a focus on rediscovering old or rarely performed operas.
He has directed works by (among others) Udo Zimmermann, Ella Milch-Sheriff, Giselher Klebe, Tom Johnson, Manfred Trojahn, Knut Vaage and Camille Kerger.
His staging of Offenbach"s "The Rhine Nixies" at the Theater Trier was designated Rediscovery of the Year 2005 by the German opera journal Opernwelt. Berger-Gorski is the only active German opera director who has put on operas on four continents.
As an international invited director Berger-Gorski has brought more than 100 opera titles from the standard repertoire onto stages around the world. He also shows a predilection for unusual, rare and contemporary works, such as Dirk d"Ase"s "Einstein" (World Premiere in Ulm), Gomes" "Condor" for the Festival Amazonas de Ópera in, Wolf-Ferrari"s "Sly" or most recently Adreana Hölszky"s "Triologia" in Bonn or Ella Milch-Sheriff"s "Baruch"s Schweigen" at Theater Fürth.
Berger-Gorski"s mastery of 5 languages has allowed him to direct at Opera-houses like the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex in Caracas, the National Theatre (Prague), the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, the Seoul Arts Center in of Korea, in Ashkelon, at the Greek National Opera in Athens and at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami.
At present, Berger-Gorski is directing premieres of works by Josef Tal and Ella Milch-Sheriff in Bonn, Luxembourg and Vienna. In August 2015 he directed Prokofiev"s "Betrothal in a Monastery" in Sao Paulo, and in 2016 in Wroclaw, as part of its program as European Capital of Culture, he is putting on a new production of Verdi"s "Macbeth".
