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For the first time a woman will headline one of Vienna’s leading opera houses: as announced today by Secretary of State for Green Culture Andrea Mayer, Lotte de Beer from the Netherlands will be appointed artistic director of the Volksoper as Robert Meyer’s successor 2022.
After graduating from the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2009, De Beer was able to make a name for himself on the European musical theater scene at record speed. In Austria, de Beer’s works could be seen at the Theater an der Wien (including “The Maiden of Orleans”, “Les pecheurs des perles”) and at the Bregenz Festival (“Moses in Egypt”).
The position of artistic director of the traditional company am Gürtel will be filled for five years from September 1, 2022. Seven women and 26 men, 16 from Germany and 17 from abroad, competed for management. Meyer, who has been in office since 2007, initially announced that he wanted to run for another term, but reported in a “messenger” interview a month ago that he had learned in July during an appointment with the Secretary of State that “an extension of contract its meaning is not possible “.
