Werckmeister Harmonien

Thom Luz, born in Zürich, studied at the Zurich University of the Arts and Theatre and directs both in the independent scene as well as at municipal and state theaters and opera houses in Switzerland, Germany, France, and Belgium, including the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Festival Weeks, and NT Gent. His productions tour internationally and have received multiple awards, including three invitations to the Berliner Theatertreffen. In 2019, Luz received the Swiss Theatre Prize. From 2015 to 2020, he was resident director at Theater Basel and since the 2019/20 season has been resident director at the Munich Residenztheater. Luz’s shimmering, highly musical stage works have been described as a theater of sounds, fleeting phenomena, and unusual shifts in perspective: Whether he tells Goethe’s "Werther" backward in Basel, loosely assembles sentences from Franz Kafka’s notebooks into a surprising soundscape under a hovering piano in Hamburg ("Die acht Oktavhefte"), or lets a group of lonely singing piano tuners wander through the empty opera house in Berlin ("Werckmeister Harmonien") — his atmospheric theater evenings always defy conventional patterns of perception. They invite us to rediscover seemingly familiar stories, speak of the cosmos of decline, failure, decay, and the exhaustion of the world — yet are never bleak, but, on the contrary, full of subtle humor and magically beautiful theatrical images. At the Zurich Opera House, he made his debut as an opera director in the 2025/26 season with "Hänsel und Gretel".

Tina Bleuler was born in Zurich in 1979 and has been working as a freelance lighting and costume designer since 2005. She completed training in fashion design, fine arts, and lighting. Bleuler works internationally and collaborates regularly with renowned directors such as Thom Luz, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Phil Hayes, and Dimitri de Perrot. Her designs have been featured at numerous state theatres and opera houses, including Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater Basel, Residenztheater Munich, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, and the Salzburg Festival. In addition to her work for theatre and opera productions, she also develops lighting and spatial concepts for exhibitions and independent projects.

Roman Reeger studied Historical Musicology and Law at the University of Hamburg. He gained his first theatre experience as an intern and assistant at the theatres in Oldenburg and Kiel, as well as at the Staatsoper and the Schaubühne in Berlin. In 2013, he joined the dramaturgy department of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. From 2020 to 2025, he was a senior dramaturg and member of the opera management team at Theater Basel. Guest engagements have taken him to the Baden-Baden Easter Festival and the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, among others. He has collaborated with directors such as Christoph Marthaler, Herbert Fritsch, Thom Luz, Benedikt von Peter, Philippe Quesne, Claus Guth, Andreas Kriegenburg, Anna Bergmann, Eva-Maria Höckmayr, and Jürgen Flimm, and has overseen world premieres of works by composers including Jörg Widmann, Oscar Strasnoy, Lucia Ronchetti, Manos Tsangaris, Beat Furrer, Hèctor Parra, and Herbert Grönemeyer. As a freelance author, he has contributed to specialist journals, exhibition catalogues, and CD booklets, regularly gives lectures, and has taught as a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been Chief Dramaturg at the Zurich Opera House.