
Personalia
Director | Dr. Bogdan Roščić |
Music Director | Philippe Jordan |
Ballet Director | Alessandra Ferri |
Commercial director | Dr. Petra Bohuslav |
Who we are - departments and teams
Director General | Dr. Bogdan Roščić |
Head of Artistic Administration | Sabine Hödl-Weinberger Head Magdalena Kheder, MAS Mag.a Gertrud Renner NEST |
Artistic Administration | Renate Dönch Annemarie Leitner |
Production Management | StephanieWippel NEST Mag.a Margarete Krenn-Arnold |
Director's Office | Anna Maria Honeck, MAS Advisor to the Director Helena Bilgeri, MA |
Casting | Robert Körner |
Opera Dramaturgy | Dr. Andreas Láng Dr. Oliver Láng |
Education & Outreach | Katharina Augendopler, BA MAS Head Ivan Beaufils |
Young Artist Program of the Vienna State Opera | Dr. Michael Kraus Artistic Director Mag.a Liina Anger Organizational management Audrey Saint-Gil Musical Consultant |
Human Resources, Legal & Organization | Dr. Florian Schulz, LL.M Head |
Organizational Development, Assistant to the Prokurist | Fabiola Simek, BSc |
HR Artists | Marlies Binder, MA Head Marco Balogh Apprentice |
HR Technical | Mag.a Susanne Schwaiger Head Mag.a Astrid Berger Philip Aichhorn Apprentice |
Legal | Mag.a Katharina Sedivy Head (Deputy Head of Department) MMag. Thomas Barthol |
Marketing & Communications, Management of the Opera Ball | Susanne Athanasiadis Head of Department |
Press | Mag.a Maria Wiesinger Head Doris König, BA |
Sales Marketing, Campaigns & Cooperations | Carmen Wieninger, BA Head Maria Gruber, BA MSc |
Digital Marketing | Mag.a Hemma Gritsch Head Jakob Gellermann, MA |
Event, Opera Ball & Guided Tours | Anna Mager Head Paulina Eichinger, BA Mag.a Stefanie Berger Anja Krimsky Cesar Pérez |
Opera Ball Offices & VIP Support, Guest Service
| Susanna C. Wiesner, MA Management Raphael Grascher |
Graphics & Photography | Irene Neubert Head of Graphics Robert Kainzmayer |
Sponsoring, Official Circle of Friends & Rentals | Martin J. Bonhard, MBA Head |
Backoffice Sponsoring | Veronika Preisinger, MA MAS |
Official Circle of Friends | Mag.a(FH) Szilvia Csóka Yuliya Draganova, MA |
Rentals | Brigitte Gauss |
Digital Development | DI Markus Kreuzbauer |
Management Assistant | Christian Huber |
Scenic Department
Stage Manager | Mag.a Katharina Strommer |
Assistant Directors | Alexander Edtbauer Emily Hehl Guest Lisa Padouvas, MA |
Stage Managers | Maximilian Kurz, MA Management Dr. Johannes Cehak Andreas Fischer Christoph Nechvatal Elisabeth Pelz-Stein Elisa Lewisch Khrystyna Kachmar Ulla Wentenschuh NEST |
Extras | Sebastian Kerssenbrock Director Christof Hartmann |
Musical Service
Director of Music Studies | Stephen Hopkins |
Deputy Director of Music Studies | Rita Kaufmann |
Musical Assistant | Jendrik Springer |
Assistant to the Director of Music Studies | Magdalena Kheder, MAS |
Solo Correpition | Hans-Otto Ehrström Annemarie Herfurth Tommaso Lepore Kristin Okerlund Richard Schwennicke Julia Simonyan Alexander Soloway Anton Ziegler |
Music Coordinator NEST | Daniel Kurland |
Maestri Suggeritori | Andreas Abegg Conductor Lucio Golino Mario Perktold Jera H. Petriček |
Administration | Mag. Igor Chomča Conductor |
Maintenance State Opera Orchestra | Christine Honolke |
Maintenance Stage Orchestra | Michael Kahlig Leonhard Waltersdorfer |
Administration State Opera Orchestra & Extra Chorus | Larissa Weidler |
Stage Music Conductors | Markus Henn Conductor Stephen Hopkins Richard Schwennicke |
Music Library | Dr. Katharina Hötzenecker Director Thomas Heinisch Mona Lisa Kress Milena Steinhauer NEST |
Technical Director | Engineer Peter Kozak |
Deputy Technical Director | Ing. Michael Wilfinger |
Assistants to the Technical Director | Mag.a Alexa Koch Bernhard Geosits |
Inventory management / Technical drawing office | Julian Aichhorn Markus Oberecker |
Technical assistants | Christoph Oefner Jaqueline Krummel, M.Eng. DI Elisabeth Stiedl DI Eva Swoboda |
Design engineer | Alexander Spyra, B.Eng. DI Nino Petuelli |
Production Engineer | Engineer Markus Vesecky |
Stage inspector | Dietmar Prokschy |
Deputy stage inspectors | Andreas Richter Harald Mühlbachler |
Lighting Manager | Engineer Rudolf Fischer Robert Eisenstein |
Audio & video technology | DI (FH) Athanasios Rovakis Francesco Valentini |
Decoration support | Stefania Compagni, MA Florentina Moser, BFA |
Costume Director | VeraRichter Saskia Schneider |
Costume Magazine & Logistics | Gertrude Hrdlicka-Gabriel |
Head of costume rehearsal supervision | Danny Zeljkovic |
Costume Management Ballet | Katrin Böge |
Costume Director NEST | Nina Paireder |
Head of Wardrobe | Maria Mader Christian Plabensteiner |
Head of make-up | Beate Krainer |
Building management | Engineer Alexander Hainka Management Harald Gepp |
Technical Manager NEST | Marco Polukord |
Deputy Technical Manager NEST | Stefan Kugler |
Commercial management | Dr. Petra Bohuslav |
Assistant to the Commercial Management | Kerstin Koller, BA, MAS |
Accounting | A. Baumgartner Management T. Alushaj |
Card sales | Linda-Yvonne Werdan, BA Leitung Michael Borg Michele da Silva Viktoria Lessiak, BA |
Information Technology | Oliver Zenner Management Thomas Chadt |
Security expert | Engineer Manfred Lenz BSC |
Environmental and sustainability manager | Christian Hauer, MSc |
Occupational medicine | Dr. Elisabeth Szedenik |
Commander of the company fire department & fire safety officer | Horst Hackl |
Ballet Director | Alessandra Ferri |
Managing Director | Mag.a Simone Wohinz |
Head of the Artistic Operations Management & Personal Assistant to the Ballet Director | Mag.a Medea Chiabotti |
Head Ballet Master (Vienna State Opera) | Marcelo Gomes |
Production Contracts | Mag.a Cornelia Nonhoff |
Administration & Organisational Development | Mag.a Elisabeth Schubert |
Assistant to the Managing Director & Personnel | Mag.a Helga Isak |
Assistant to the Artistic Operations Management | Sonia Setien |
Assistant to the Artistic Management | Jeremy Gubman |
Rehearsal Disposition (Vienna State Opera) | Ismenia Keck |
Shoe Management | Franziska Wallner-Hollinek |
Production Management & Ballet Master (Vienna State Opera) | Lukas Gaudernak |
Planning Coordinator & Ballet Master | Louisa Rachedi |
Ballet Masters (Vienna State Opera) | Pino Alosa Barbora Kohoutková |
Rehearsal Disposition & Head Ballet Master (Vienna Volksoper) | Vesna Orlić |
Administration & Production Management (Vienna Volksoper) | Elisabeth Bolius |
Ballet Masters (Vienna Volksoper) | Samuel Colombet Sergey Ignatiev |
Pianists (Vienna State Opera) | Giovanni Curreli Jiří Novák Shino Takizawa Igor Zapravdin |
Pianists (Vienna Volksoper) | Jozef Bezak Béla Fischer |
Dramaturgy | Nastasja Fischer, MA Mag.a Iris Frey |
Public Relations | Mag. Gerald C. Stocker |
Sales Marketing & Event Support | Sarah Bikeev, MA |
Photographer | Ashley Taylor |
Videographer | Jakob Plattner |
Masseur | Rainer Heizinger |
Circle of Friends Vienna State Ballet | Adrian Cunescu |
Artistic Head & Chorus Master | Johannes Mertl |
Vocal Training | Ulrike Bancher Marlis Birkner |
Musical Team | Kerem Sezen Georg Stangelberger |
Stage Presence Training | Karl Wenninger |
Solo Singing Teaching (Gifted & Talented Program) | Alexander Kaimbacher Ileana Tonca |
Administration | Kathrin Schulz |
Office/Music Library | Parviz Yahyavi |
Governesses | Regina Barowski Kathrin Leiwe-Missios Lone Rasmussen |
Porter | Gianpiero Russo |
Management | |
Artistic Director | Alessandra Ferri |
Commercial management | Simone Wohinz |
Director | Patrick Armand |
Pedagogical team | |
Ballet Master Youth Company | Callum Hastie |
Teachers | Ulrike Amon, MA Matilde Ceron, MA MA Annkathrin Dehn, BA Zsolt Tibor Elek, MA Robert Gabdullin Zdenko Galaba, MA Caterina Mantovani Alice Necsea Lucian Necsea Diliana Nikiforova, PhD Vladimir Shishov Alena Weber Jed O'Grady Weiss, BA |
Pianists | Cristian Axt Frantisek Drafi Aya Kaukal Seul Lee Anna Resch Noriko Schmidt-Kawase Yen-Ting Wang, MA Yasuhito Watanabe |
Rehearsal director / supervisor | Matilde Ceron, MA MA |
Supervisors | Dagmar Bald Dominik Burgstaller |
Health Coordinator | D.O. Barbara Jurcsa |
Child welfare team | Dr. Friederike Michlmayr Management Konstantinos Diminakis |
Administration | |
Administration & Controlling | Ariane Rindle |
Coordinator | Bostjan Ivanjsic, MA |
School management, legal and organization development | Mag.a Liliane Leißer |
Employee of the school administration | Konstantinos Diminakis, MA |
Assistant to the management | Wendy Maurer-Menzel |
Administration | Parviz Yahyavi |
School caretaker | Gianpiero Russo |
Porter | Katrin Firlinger |
Medical-therapeutic team | |
Company doctor / school doctor | Dr. Elisabeth Szedenik |
Pediatrician | Dr. Sophia Brandstetter |
Health and trust psychologist | Hannah Schatz, MSc |
External pool Medical and therapeutic care | in cooperation with Leistungssport Austria |
External cooperation partners / collaboration | BRG Vienna III Boerhaavegasse NMS Renngasse BSPA - Federal Sports Academy LEISTUNGSSPORT AUSTRIA - Federal Institute for Competitive and Elite Sports die möwe - child protection center |
Supervisory Board | Christian Kircher Chairman of the Supervisory Board Andreas Treichl Deputy Chairman Elke Hesse |
Works Council of the performing arts staff | Karl Nebenführ Chairman Céline Janou Weder 1. Deputy Chairman (Ballet Department) KS Hans Peter Kammerer 2. Deputy (Soloists Department) Martina Eichinger MA Treasurer (Administration Department) Maximilian Kurz MA Secretary (Dept. Scenic Service) Wolfram Igor Derntl Divisional Works Council (Choir Dept.) Mag. Art. Irene Hofmann Divisional Works Council (Choir Dept.) Stephanie Houtzeel Divisional Works Council (Soloists department) Gunnar Khünl-Brady Divisional Works Council (Administration Department) Igor Milos Divisional Works Council (Ballet Department) |
Works Council of the non-performing artistic staff | Wilfried Hedenborg Chairman Martin Zalodek 1. Deputy Chairman Wolfgang Lintner 2. Deputy Chairman and Treasurer Mark Gaal Secretary Wolfgang Härtel Card administration Regina Schmallegger Secretariat |
Works council of the technical staff | Christoph Biebl Chairman Thomas Ossowsky deputy Chairman Werner Pockberger Secretary Manuela Kolb deputy Secretary Wolfgang Koran Treasurer Mario Bocanek deputy treasurer Patrick Winkler Johann Schidak |
Works council for the stage orchestra | Wolfgang Zuser Chairman of the board Stefan Neubauer Deputy Chairman Beatrix Kiss Deputy & Treasurer |
Equal Treatment Officer | Astrid Berger Deputy |
Compliance Officer | Mag.a Katharina Sedivy MMag. Thomas Barthol Deputy |
Compliance Officer | Katharina Sedivy, Mag Deputy |
Data Protection Officer of the Bundestheater | Silvia Schauer, MSc MBA |
Data Protection Coordinator of the Vienna State Opera | Dr. Victoria E. Tschiedl |