Andrea Bernard

Andrea Bernard, born in Bolzano in 1987, is a director and architect.
He established himself on the international scene in 2016 by winning the European Opera-directing Prize with a project for La Traviata, staged at the Festival Verdi di Parma 2017, in co-production with the Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

In the 2023/2024 season he staged a new production of Don Carlo for the Circuito Lombardo (Teatro Fraschini di Pavia), a production that earned him the 2024 Abbiati Prize as best director. In 2023 he signs the direction of Ernani at the Teatro La Fenice, in co-production with the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia. He makes his debut in 2020 at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with a new production of Don Pasquale, revived in 2023 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. In 2021 he is at the Oper Frankfurt with Händel's Amadigi at the Bockenheimer Depot.
In 2022 he curated a new production of Carmen for the Landestheater Salzburg, where he returned in 2024 for the season opener with Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims. For the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo he staged Lucrezia Borgia, in co-production with the Theatres of Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia and
Trieste. He collaborated with the Teatro Sociale in Como for Carmen, the star of the Seville circus, in a co-production with Bregenzer Festspiele, Opéra de Rouen, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra d'Avignon. He also returned to Como for a shortened version of Turandot as part of the Opera Domani project, in a co-production with Avignon. For three consecutive years, he inaugurated the season of the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn in Switzerland with Rossini's La Cenerentola, Donizetti's La fille du régiment and Donizetti's L'italiana in Algeri, returning in 2023 with the diptych Le Chalet Swiss (Adam's Le Chalet and Donizetti's La Betly). In 2018 he is at the Teatro Regio di Parma with C. Anastasi's La spada nella roccia and in 2019 he returns to Como with La Traviata for the Festival Como Città della Musica, as part of the 200.com project.

Parallel to opera directing, he devoted himself to prose theatre and the organisation of artistic events. He made his prose debut in the 2015/2016 season with Brattaro mon amour by Paolo Cagnan. In 2024, he opened the season of the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano with A Kind of Miles, a show dedicated to Miles Davis written and performed by Paolo Fresu. He was also the director and artistic director of the inauguration of the NOI Techpark Alto Adige and the 20th anniversary of the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.

Upcoming engagements include Ercole amante di Cavalli for the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Tancredi for the opening of the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, a new production of Lucrezia Borgia at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the diptych La Voix humaine - Diario di uno scomparso at the Opera di Roma.