Louisa Proske
Die deutsche Bühne , (26.04.2026)Tiroler Festspiele Erl - Lucia di Lammermoor
Under the direction of Louisa Proske, the operatic classic became a brilliant, highly emotional mental tightrope walk, which successfully brought out the tipping points between beauty and madness inherent in the libretto with a successful, biographically grounded artistic device.
Salzburger Nachrichten, (28.12.2025)Aalto Theatre Essen – Enchanted City
Louisa Proske's imaginative yet lifelike production, which recently achieved great audience success with the Bernstein musical "On the Town" (Halloherne reported) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, enchants audiences of all generations with its effective multimedia design by Momme Hinrichs (stage, costumes).
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
DEUTSCHE OPER AM RHEIN
Bernstein - On the Town
PREMIERE April 25
AALTO MUSIC THEATRE ESSEN
Penderbayne - UA The Enchanted City
PREMIERE May 31
Biography
Louisa Proske has established herself as a versatile, visionary opera director and artistic director on two continents. After studying English Literature at the University of Cambridge and directing at the Yale School of Drama, she developed a distinctive style that combines musical precision, narrative clarity, and poetic imagery.
In the 2025/26 season, Louisa Lucia di Lammermoor will direct at the Tyrolean Festival Erl, stage Primero Sueño for the first time in Mexico City, direct Leonard Bernstein's On the Town at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and stage the world premiere of The Enchanted City at the Aalto Theatre Essen. Her upcoming projects also include her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Verdi's Macbeth and her debut at the Opéra national de Paris in September 2026 with Mozart's Don Giovanni .
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As co-founder and former co-artistic director of Heartbeat Opera, she shaped an ensemble described by the New York Times as "small and young, but crucial to the future of the genre" and hailed as "pioneers" by the Wall Street Journal . It was there that her acclaimed works such as " Der Freischütz “, “Don Giovanni”, “Carmen”, “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “Daphnis & Chloé” and “Miss Handel”.
Her recent works include the opening production of “Tosca” for the 50th anniversary of the Glimmerglass Festival, the Handel new productions “Serse” and “Amadigi di Gaula” (openings of the International Handel Festival Halle), “Rusalka” (Regensburg Opera), “Rinaldo” (Detroit Opera & Glimmerglass Festival), Chausson’s “Le Roi Arthus” (Bard SummerScape), the world premiere of “Primero Sueño” (MetLiveArts New York) and the production of “The Mother of Us All”, a historic collaboration between the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Philharmonic and Juilliard Vocal Arts, which was declared the No. 1 classical music highlight of 2020 by the New York Times.
From 2021 to 2024, Louisa Proske was Deputy Artistic Director and Resident Director of the Halle Opera, where she directed, among other works, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”, “Gypsy”, “Into the Woods” and “Rigoletto”.
In 2018 she was awarded the Princess Grace Award; in 2024 she was nominated as Director of the Year in the critics' poll of the magazine Opernwelt .
In the field of acting, she directed at venues including the Red Bull Theatre in New York (Webster's The White Devil ), the Barrington Stage Company ( Engagements , Gaslight , This ), the Assembly Theatre Edinburgh, and a European tour of Macbeth. Her production of Jiehae Park's "peerless" earned her a Berkshire Theatre Award nomination.2025/26
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