Lydia Steier stages "Le Marzze di Figaro" at the Hannover State Opera

Lydia Steier returns to the Hanover State Opera for a production of Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro." Costume designer Alfred Mayerhofer and set designer Momme Hinrichs have also been engaged for the production.

Her career as a director began in 2009 with Turandot (Busoni) in conjunction with Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci at the German National Theatre in Weimar. Important works of recent seasons include the double bill Oedipus Rex – Iolanta at the Oper Frankfurt , The Rake's Progress at the Theater Basel, Lohengrin at the Los Angeles Opera, The Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival, La Fanciulla del West at the BERLIN STATE OPERA and Carmen at the Cologne Opera. In February 2019, she directed the highly acclaimed world premiere of Michael Wertmüller's Diodati.unendlich in Basel. Lydia Steier has been nominated twice for the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST, and her production of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from 'Licht' at the Theater Basel was awarded the 2018 Critics' Choice Award in the magazine Opernwelt was named Performance of the Year 2016. Her productions of Alcina and La Juive have already been seen at the Hanover State Opera. (Source: Hanover State Opera)