Personalia
Director | Dr. Bogdan Roščić |
Music Director | Philippe Jordan |
Ballet Director | Martin Schläpfer |
Commercial director | Dr. Petra Bohuslav |
Who we are - departments and teams
Director | Dr. Bogdan Roščić |
Operations management | Sabine Hödl-Weinberger Management Magdalena Kheder, MAS |
Director's office | Renate Dönch Annemarie Leitner |
Production management | Stephanie Wippel, Mag NEST |
Staff of the artistic management | Laura Reinthaller-Thelen Advisor to the Director Helena Bilgeri, MA Gertrud Renner, MA Head of NEST |
Casting | Robert Körner |
Opera dramaturgy | Sergio Morabito Chief dramaturge Dr. Andreas Láng |
Mediation & Outreach | Krysztina Winkel, MA Management Margarete Krenn-Arnold, MA |
Studio of the Vienna State Opera | Dr. Michael Kraus Artistic Director Uta Sander, MAS Organizational Management |
Personnel, Law & Organization Organizational development, authorized signatory | Dr. Florian Schulz, LL.M (authorized signatory) Management Fabiola Simek, BSc |
Human Resources Art | M. Binder, MA Management M. Balogh Apprentice |
Personnel Technology | G. Gelbmann Management Mag. A. Berger Apprentice |
Legal department | Katharina Sedivy Management (Deputy Head of Department) MMag. Thomas Barthol Dr. MMag. Victoria E. Tschiedl |
Marketing & Press | Susanne Athanasiadis Head of Department |
Press Office | Maria Wiesinger Management Doris König, BA Antonia Perko, BA MSc |
Marketing | Carmen Wieninger, BA Management Maria Gruber, BA MSc |
Digital Marketing | Mag. Hemma Gritsch Management Jakob Gellermann, BA MA |
Event Marketing & Guided Tours | Anna Mager Management Paulina Eichinger, BA Cesar Pérez |
Ticketing Opera Ball, Service & VIP Support | Susanna C. Wiesner, MA Management Raphael Grascher |
Graphics and photography | Irene Neubert Head of Graphics Robert Kainzmayer |
Sponsoring, Official Circle of Friends & Rentals | Martin J. Bonhard, MBA Head of |
Sponsoring | Veronika Preisinger, MA MAS |
Rentals | Liina Anger |
Official circle of friends | Mag.(FH) Szilvia Csóka Yuliya Draganova, MA |
Digital Development | DI Markus Kreuzbauer |
Management assistant | Christian Huber |
Scenic Service | |
Stage manager | Katharina Strommer |
Assistant director | Alexander Edtbauer Natalie Ortner-Menconi Emily Hehl Niv Hoffman Peter Pacher Lisa Padouvas, MA Wolfgang Schilly, MA |
Stage manager | Maximilian Kurz, MA Management Dr. Johannes Cehak NEST |
Dance rehearsal director (choir & extras) | Christian Herden |
Extras | Sebastian Kerssenbrock Conductor Christof Hartmann |
Music Director | Philippe Jordan |
Musical assistant to the music director | Jendirk Springer |
Assistant to the Music Director | Andrea Dunst |
Musical Director of Studies | Stephen Hopkins |
Deputy Musical Director of Studies | Rita Kaufmann |
Advisor to the Director of Studies | Magdalena Kheder Hans-Otto Ehrström |
Solo accompanist | Annemarie Herfurth Dan Kurland NEST Tommaso Lepore Kristin Okerlund Cécile Restier Richard Schwennicke Julia Simonyan Anton Ziegler |
Maestri Suggeritori | Andreas Abegg Management Lucio Golino |
Administration musical area | Igor Chomča Management Larissa Weidler, BA |
Inspection State Opera Orchestra | Christine Honolke |
Inspection Stage Orchestra | Michael Kahlig Leonhard Waltersdorfer |
Stage music conductor | Markus Henn Conductor Stephen Hopkins |
Music Archive | Dr. Katharina Hötzenecker Director Thomas Heinisch |
Technical Director | Engineer Peter Kozak |
Deputy Technical Director | Ing. Michael Wilfinger |
Assistants to the Technical Director | 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. Dipl. Ing. Nino Petuelli, BSc |
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, BA |
Costume Director | Vera Richter |
Wardrobe management | 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 Management Michael Borg |
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 & Chief Choreographer | Martin Schläpfer |
Commercial Director | Simone Wohinz |
Deputy Ballet Director | Louisa Rachedi |
Personal Assistant to the Ballet Director & Chief Choreographer and Head of the Artistic Directorate | Verena Kögler |
Administration | State Opera Assistant to the Commercial Director & Personnel Cornelia Nonhoff Production contracts Sonia Setien Assistant to the Operations Director Franziska Wallner-Hollinek Shoe administration Volksoper Elisabeth Bolius |
Administration & Organizational Development | Elisabeth Schubert |
Dramaturgy | Anne do Paço Chief dramaturge Nastasja Fischer MA |
Communications | Gerald C. Stocker |
Photographer | Ashley Taylor |
Videographer | Jakob Plattner |
Production management | State Opera Lukas Graudernak Volksoper Elisabeth Bolius |
Rehearsal scheduling | State Opera Ismenia Keck Volksoper Vesna Orlić |
Ballet Mistresses | State Opera Lukas Gaudernak Folk opera Vesna Orlić 1. Ballet Mistress Samuel Colombet |
Corepetitors | State Opera Giovanni Curreli Folk opera Jozef Bezak |
Massage | Stefan Pettermann Physiotherapy Rainer Heizinger |
Friends of the Vienna State Ballet | Adrian Cunescu |
Artistic Director & Choir Conductor | Johannes Mertl |
Voice training | Ulrike Bancher Marlis Birkner |
Musical team | Kerem Sezen Florian Schwarz Georg Stangelberge |
Stage presence training | Karl Wenninger |
Solo singing - promotion of gifted singers | Alexander Kaimbacher Ileana Tonca |
Administration | Kathrin Schulz |
Administration | Parviz Yahyavi |
Governesses for rehearsals & performances (Opera) | Regina Barowski Vanja Kugler Trajković Lone Rasmussen |
Child welfare team |
Management Karl Wenninger |
School caretaker | Gianpiero Russo |
Management | Martin Schläpfer |
Artistic Director | Simone Wohinz |
Commercial management | Christiana Stefanou |
Director | Christiana Stefanou |
Pedagogical team | |
Ballet Master Youth Company | Callum Hastie |
Teachers | Ulrike Amon, MA Matilde Ceron, MA MA Annkathrin Dehn 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 Lisa Wallner |
Health Coordinator | D.O. Barbara Jurcsa |
Child welfare team | Dr. Friederike Michlmayr Management Konstantinos Diminakis |
Administration | |
Administration & Controlling | Ariane Rindle |
Coordinator | Bostjan Ivanjsic, MA |
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 Koran Wolfgang Treasurer Werner Pockberger Secretary Michael Dittrich Zorica Nowotny Christoph Krejsa Johann Schidak |
Works council for the stage orchestra | Wolfgang Zuser Chairman Stefan Neubauer Deputy Chairman Beatrix Kiss Deputy & Treasurer |
Equal Treatment Officer | Astrid Berger Deputy |
Compliance Officer |
Deputy |
Data Protection Officer of the Bundestheater | Silvia Schauer, MSc MBA |
Data Protection Coordinator of the Vienna State Opera | Dr. Victoria E. Tschiedl |