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André Heller-Lopes

André Heller-Lopes
One of the most active stage directors for opera in Latin America, André Heller-Lopes has directed productions all over Brazil and also in countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Poland, Austria and U.K., Malaysia and the USA. He trained at the prestigious San Francisco Merola Opera Program (2001) and at Covent Garden’s Young Artist Programme (2003-2005). In 2013 he received the Britten100Award and his production of A midsummer night's dream was a finalist in the best opera production category at the 2014 Opera Awards. Distinguished in 2012 by the Epoca magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in Brazil, André Heller-Lopes is a three time winner of the “Carlos Gomes Prize” (2009/2010/2011) as best opera stage director in Brazil and of the Argentinian Music Critics Association distinction for best production of the year 2015.

André Heller-Lopes repertoire includes a wide variety of opera ranging from classical works (Medée, Le Nozze di Figaro, Idomeneo, La Finta Giardineira, Die Zauberlföte or Renaud) to major Romantic operas (Tristan und Isolde, Carmen, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Samson et Dalila, Eugene Oneguin, Faust, Werther) and Verismo (Andrea Chenier, Adriana Lecouvreur, Tosca, Turandot, Manon Lescaut), to modern masterpieces (Salomé, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier, Der Zwerg, Savitri, Katya Kabanova, Jenufa) — all the way to Roger Water's rock-opera Ça Ira. One André Heller-Lopes’ most important productions was the Brazilian Ring an acclaimed take on Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Future and recent engagements include Don Giovanni at Wroclaw Opera in Poland, Faust at the Teatro Amazonas and Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile, Turandot at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Trouble in Tahiti for the Minas Filarmonica and Aida for Theater Erfurt in Germany, the Brazilian premieres of Janácek’s Katya Kabanova and The Case Makropulos.

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