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Biography

Swiss stage director of musical theatre, Nina Russi, was awarded the “Götz Friedrich Prize” in 2019 for the Leonard Bernstein double evening “Trouble in Haiti” / “A Quiet Place” at Theater Aachen. Furthermore, she was a semifinalist at the RING AWARD 2020 in Graz with a concept to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”.

In the season 2021/22 Nina Russi staged Vivaldi’s “Bajazet (Il Tamerlano)” at Staatstheater Nürnberg, Janáček’s “The Makropulos Case” at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, as well as Verdi’s “La traviata” at Theater St. Gallen.
In the season 2022/23 Russi brought, among other things, Handel’s “Serse” onto the stage of Opera Zürich.

Other past stagings at Opera Zürich include Mark-Anthony Turnage‘s fantasy opera „Coraline“, the much acclaimed world premiere of the chamber opera „Der Traum von Dir“ by Swiss composer Xavier Dayer based on the novella „Brief einer Unbekannten“ by Stefan Zweig, as well as the two contemporary children operas „Die Gänsemagd“ by Iris ter Schiphorst and „Gold!“ by Leonard Evers. At Theater Winterthur and at Konzert Theater Bern she staged the world premiere of the family opera „Reise nach Tripiti“.

As a scholarship holder Russi took part in several international theatre programmes: International Summer Arts Program in Watermill, New York, under the artistic direction of Robert Wilson; Directors’ Lab at Lincoln Theater Center in New York; International Forum at the Berliner Theatertreffen; Scholarship Programme of the Richard Wagner Society at the Bayreuth Festival. A direction scholarship of the European Network of Opera Academies brought her to the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw as well as to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. In addition, she participated in the Woman Opera Makers Workshop at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence led by Katie Mitchell.

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Artist Website

www.ninarussi.ch

Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821

Press

Bajazet (Il Tamerlano) / Staatstheater Nürnberg / 29.10.21 / Süddeutsche Zeitung

"zusammen mit der modernen szenischen Fassung von Nina Russi im wunderbar variablen Bühnenbild von Mathis Neidhardt ist das Ganze echtes Musik-Theater!"

Bajazet (Il Tamerlano) / Staatstheater Nürnberg / 25.10.21 / opern.news

"historisch informiert, im Heute spielend und gelungen"

Coraline / Zurich Opera / 16.11.19 / tagblatt.ch

"Action inmitten roter Samtsessel und Stuck"

Trouble in Tahiti & A Quiet Place / Theater Aachen / 16.02.19 / deropernfreund.de

"gelingt eine so unglaublich feingliedrige und auf den Punkt gebrachte Inszenierung"

Trouble in Tahiti & A Quiet Place / Theater Aachen / 10.02.19 / die-deutsche-buehne.de

"Bemerkenswert phantasievoll und voll Funken sprühendem Witz"

Trouble in Tahiti & A Quiet Place / Theater Aachen / 10.02.19 / onlinemerker.com

"Mit solchen Querverbindungen, die mitunter ganz schön ans Herz greifen, bietet Nina Russi eine ganz, ganz große Regiearbeit."

News

Psycho thriller Elektra

Following her acclaimed interpretation of Janacek's The Makropulos Affair in 2022, celebrated by audience and critics alike, Nina Russi’s next staging at Würzburg’s Mainfranken Theater now celebrates its premiere!
This time she brings Strauss's action-packed one-acter Elektra to the stage, interpreted as a "psychodrama of a woman who wants to avenge the misdeeds of her ancestors and in the process makes herself guilty. Caught in the vicious circle of guilt and atonement, the question arises of a way out of this logic, out of this system."

Julia Katharina Berndt is once again responsible for the stage and costume design, Enrico Calesso is conducting.

Premiere: 8th October, 2023

Further performances:
11/15/22/31 October, 22 November and 1 December, 2023

Further information about the production:
www.mainfrankentheater.de/...