Berlin opera house retain Barrie Kosky as Chief Director until 2022.

Barrie Kosky is the opera director with the Midas touch. His radical and innovative productions have won him international recognition as one of the most insightful and exciting figures in opera today – a reputation that earned him the position of Chief Director at Berlin’s Komische Oper for the 2012 to 2014 seasons. Kosky’s trademark ability to entice uninitiated audiences into the opera house, even in a country as committed to attending opera as Germany, has not gone unnoticed, and it has been announced ahead of their new season opening with Offenbach’s La belle Hélène this week, that Kosky will now remain at the top spot at Komische Oper until 2022.

This eight year extenison on Kosky’s current contract is a stellar endorsement, not only of Kosky’s considerable skill and invention when programming a season, but also of how he has begun to change the perception of the Komische Oper (one of three major opera houses competing for audience members in Berlin) as not only presenting operetta. In an interview with Berlin’s Morganpost Kosky revealed the secret of his continued success in Berlin is to program for the...