Georgine Maria-Magdalena Balk

Georgine was born in Munich. There she completed her studies in theatre, music and communications at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität with a Magister Artium. In tandem with her studies, she worked at Bayerischer Rundfunk and ZDF. After freelancing with David Alden and Deborah Warner and co-directing Hänsel and Gretel with Jürgen Rose at the Cologne Opera, she was engaged by the Bavarian State Opera in 2008. It was there in her role as Spielleiterin that she collaborated with, and learned from, artists, stage designers, and theatre and opera directors such as Marina Abramović, Lotte de Beer, Frank Castorf, Richard Jones, Andreas Kriegenburg, Hans Neuenfels, Amélie Niermayr and Dmitri Tscherniakov, to name but a few. Independently and in a recreative process, she rehearsed numerous revivals with artists such as Elina Garanča, Anja Harteros and Jonas Kaufmann. At the Bavarian State Opera’s guest performances in Tokyo, she directed Lohengrin, Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Zauberflöte. She staged the work Empowerment – a musical performance in and with the exhibition Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe at the Bavarian State Opera in collaboration with the Alte Pinakothek Munich. She was responsible for the revivals of Otello at the Liceo in Barcelona and Evita at the Bühnen Bern, among others.

7 Deaths of Maria Callas will be her ENO debut.