Ralf Merkel
Ralf Merkel was born in Altenburg, Germany. He studied electrical engineering and, after graduating as an electrical engineer, became involved in the technical and artistic aspects of theatrical lighting. After the Landestheater Altenburg and the Prinzregententheater Munich, where he was also a lecturer at the Bavarian Theater Academy, he joined John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet in 2002. Since that time, he has been the lighting director of this ensemble and has made guest appearances with it in numerous theaters around the world. John Neumeier's work with other ballet companies has taken him to Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York, San Francisco, Houston, Toronto, Beijing, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Oslo and Warsaw, among other places. At the Vienna State Ballet, he was most recently responsible for the lighting design of John Neumeier's ballet evenings Verklungene Feste | Josephs Legende and Le Pavillon dʼArmide / Le Sacre and the realisation of the lighting concept for Lady of the Camellias.
Performances with Ralf Merkel
with Ketevan Papava, Timoor Afshar, Eno Peci, Rashaen Arts, Sinthia Liz, Masayu Kimoto, Liudmila Konovalova, Marcos Menha, Elena Bottaro, Géraud Wielick, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Wednesday 19. February 2025
with Ketevan Papava, Timoor Afshar, Eno Peci, Rashaen Arts, Sinthia Liz, Masayu Kimoto, Liudmila Konovalova, Marcos Menha, Elena Bottaro, Géraud Wielick, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Monday 24. February 2025
with Elena Bottaro, Davide Dato, Zsolt Török, Igor Milos, Aleksandra Liashenko, Giorgio Fourés, Alexey Popov, Gaia Fredianelli, Jackson Carroll, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Saturday 1. March 2025
with Ketevan Papava, Timoor Afshar, Eno Peci, Rashaen Arts, Sinthia Liz, Masayu Kimoto, Liudmila Konovalova, Marcos Menha, Gaia Fredianelli, Géraud Wielick, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Sunday 2. March 2025
with Olga Esina, Edvin Revazov, Marcos Menha, Zsolt Török, Alaia Rogers-Maman, Arne Vandervelde, Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, Eszter Ledán, Kristián Pokorný, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Friday 7. March 2025
with Olga Esina, Edvin Revazov, Marcos Menha, Zsolt Török, Alaia Rogers-Maman, Arne Vandervelde, Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, Eszter Ledán, Kristián Pokorný, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Monday 10. March 2025
with Elena Bottaro, Davide Dato, Zsolt Török, Igor Milos, Aleksandra Liashenko, Giorgio Fourés, Alexey Popov, Gaia Fredianelli, Jackson Carroll, Conductor: Markus Lehtinen
Die Kameliendame
Cast on Saturday 22. March 2025