The Götz Friedrich Prize has announced the two winners of the 2025-6 season. Giulia Giammona won for her production of “Cardillac” at the Staatstheater Meiningen while Elena Maria Artisi won for her production of “Lucia di Lammemoor” at Theater Altenburg. The jury decided, for the first time, to award two prizes “in light of two equally compelling productions,” the Deutsche {…}
Aileen Schneider has won the Götz Friedrich Prize for the 2024-5 season. The director was recognized for her production of Aribert Reimann’s “Melusine” at Oper Frankfurt. Schneider’s production portrays an idealistic, finding a solution for everything in society, that could be seen as a coming of age process, transferring the action to somewhere in the future when resources are scarce {…}
Applications for the 2024-25 Götz Friedrich Prize of the Deutsche Oper Berlin for directing works are open. The prize will be awarded to new German-language productions that premiered in public or private theatre in the 2024/25 season. Participating directors must be under the age of 35. Applications should include the director’s curriculum vitae, the name of the staged work, the {…}