Nadja Loschky

The director Nadja Loschky is distinguished by psychologically precise and visually powerful opera and music theatre productions. Her artistic work combines an intensive portrayal of characters with a precise interconnection of musical structure and stage language. Her wide-ranging repertoire extends from the Baroque to the modern era and includes works by Händel, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, as well as composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regular engagements take her to major opera houses and theatres in the German-speaking world, including the Komische Oper Berlin, the Oper Frankfurt, the Semperoper Dresden, the Oper Köln, the Oper Graz, the Opernhaus Zürich and the Theater Bielefeld.

In the 2026/27 season, Nadja Loschky will take on a new production of Händel’s Rinaldo at the Theater an der Wien, continuing her ongoing work in the field of Baroque music theatre.

Highlights of her work as a director to date include Carmen at the Semperoper Dresden, Zingarelli’s Giulietta e Romeo at the Barocktheater Schwetzingen, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Rihm’s Jakob Lenz, Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt, as well as La Traviata at the Theater Bielefeld, where she was ultimately appointed resident director in 2018. Since 2019/20, she has shaped the institution first as head of music theatre and subsequently as artistic director. For her production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Theater Bielefeld, she was awarded the Götz-Friedrich-Preis in 2015; her production of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice received a nomination that same year from the trade magazine „Opernwelt“ in the category „Beste Regie“ — “Best Direction.”

Further productions were created at the Staatstheater Kassel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), the Komische Oper Berlin (Thomas Adès’s Hamlet), the Oper Graz (Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, Die Passagierin), the Oper Köln (Rusalka, Die Vögel) and the Oper Frankfurt (Giulio Cesare, Lulu). At the Opernhaus Zürich, she staged the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Rote Laterne as well as Frank Schwemmer’s family opera Die Schatzinsel. In addition, engagements took her to the Theater Heidelberg (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), the Luzerner Theater (Händel’s Alcina, Bellini’s Norma), the Theater Aachen (Simon Boccanegra) and the Oldenburgische Staatstheater (La dame blanche, Verdi’s Macbeth).

Nadja Loschky studied music theatre directing at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. During her studies, she assisted Hans Neuenfels and worked as a freelance director at the Städtischen Bühnen Osnabrück, where she created her first independent productions in the field of children’s and youth theatre. Her interpretation of Frieds mono-opera Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank was invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend in Berlin in 2006. Following her practical diploma examination in 2009, she directed productions of La Traviata and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Städtischen Bühnen Osnabrück, as well as Charles Gounod’s Faust at the Staatstheater Kassel. In 2011, she made her debut with the world premiere of Christian Jost’s family opera Mikropolis at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Alongside her work as a director, Nadja Loschky is committed to supporting emerging talent and works on a project basis as a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin and at the Universität der Künste Berlin.