Ruth Asralda
Ruth Asralda is currently studying musical theater directing in the master's program at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Her production of Bernhard Lang's song cycle "The Cold Trip" was invited to Bolivia by the Goethe Center Santa Cruz. During the Corona pandemic, she also realized this production as a live stream.
Ruth Asralda first studied musicology at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz before moving to Basel to study music theater directing with Georges Delnon at the Musikhochschule Basel. She completed her studies with the production "Dido without Aeneas", a music theater project in cooperation with the Musikhochschule Basel and the Theater Basel. Subsequently, she studied directing for music theater at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. As part of her training, she staged, among others, "A Quarrel," her own play about the artist couple Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre, scene excerpts from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," R. Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier," J. Haydn's "Il Mondo della Luna," J. Offenbach's "La Périchole," J. Strauss' "Die Fledermaus," and G.F. Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto." In 2018 she took over the production dramaturgy of "Der Ring des Nibelungen für Kinder" directed by David Merz at the Bayreuth Festival.
After graduating, she was a permanent assistant director and evening director at the Komische Oper Berlin for 3 years. As an assistant director she has worked at renowned houses, including Semper Zwei- Semperoper Dresden, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Salzburg Easter Festival, Bayreuth Festival and Staatsoper unter den Linden. She has worked with directors Florian Lutz, George Delnon, Patrick Schlösser, Michael Sturminger, Manfred Weiss, Wouter Van Looy, Georg Schmiedleitner, Katharina Wagner, Barrie Kosky, Tobias Kratzer and Damiano Michieletto, among others. Ruth Asralda interned with Sasha Waltz, Achim Freyer, Sven-Eric Bechtolf , Corinna von Rad and Calixto Bieito.