Philippe Arlaud, born in Paris, is a French stage director for plays, show, musical and opera, and is also a stage designer and light designer.
The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is Germany’s largest opera and concert house, with a 2,500 seat capacity.
The Festspiel Baden-Baden(Baden-Baden Festival) is a series of festivals presented by the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden, Germany. The programme is structured around five annual festival periods dispersed throughout the year. The Easter, Whitsun, Summer, Autumn and Winter Festivals each incorporate at least one opera production and several classical concerts.
Gert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.
Helen Schneider is an American singer and actress working mainly in Germany.
Erni Mangold is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions.
Achim Freyer is a German stage director, set designer and painter. A protégé of Bertolt Brecht, Freyer has become one of the world's leading opera directors, working throughout Europe and, since 2002, in the United States, principally with the Los Angeles Opera. Since 1992, Freyer has developed a number of productions featuring his own troupe of performers, known as the Freyer Ensemble.
The Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal (Heinrich-Tessenow-Medaille) is an architecture award established in 1963 by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. of Hamburg in honour of Heinrich Tessenow. It is awarded by the Heinrich-Tessenow-Gesellschaft e.V. "to honour people who have achieved distinction in craft and industrial form-making and in the teaching of the culture of living and building, and who have through their life's work acted in the spirit of Heinrich Tessenow". Until 2006, the medal was awarded annually.
Simone Kermes is a German coloratura soprano, especially known for her virtuoso voice, suited to the opera seria genre of the Baroque and early Classical period.
Dieter Dorn is a German theatre director, also for the opera, the manager of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1983 to 2001 and now manager of the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel.
Rosalie Helga Lina Zech, known as Rosel Zech, was a German theater and film actress, especially with the "Autorenkino" movement, which began in the 1970s.
Kai Peterson, is an actor, voice talent, music producer, composer, lyricist and singer in the genres musical theater, Jazz, Soul and Funk. He took his stage name Kai Peterson in 1989, but since his marriage with Karen Henry his legal name is Kai-Peter Henry.
Markus Boysen is a German actor.
Tatjana Gürbaca is a German opera director.
Schauspielhaus Wien is a theatre in Vienna, Austria, located at 19 Porzellangasse in the 9th District of Vienna (Alsergrund).
Michael Simon is a German theatre director, opera director and scenic designer.
Martin Gruber is a German director, choreographer and movement teacher for performing artists.
Brigitte Swoboda was an Austrian actor.
Johann Baptist Klerr was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer.
L'Orfeo Barockorchester is an Austrian Ensemble of historically informed performance.
Paula Conrad-Schlenther was an Austrian-German stage actress.