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André Heller-Lopes is the winner of the 2009 and 2010 “Carlos Gomes Prize”, Latin America’s most prestigious prize in the field of Opera and Classical Music, for his stagings of Ariadne auf Naxos and Samson et Dalila, and Der Rosenkavalier. A post-graduate from Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University Music School, where he is also professor the Voice Department (Stagecraft and History of Opera), André Heller-Lopes has recently presented his Phd Thesis on Brazil’s Opera Nacional to Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the King's College London.
In 2001, he was invited to take part in the prestigious San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, which later led him to an internship at the New York Metropolitan Opera House. In 2003, he was the first stage director to join the Royal Opera House Covent Garden’s Young Artists Programme. Over three seasons, he assisted internationally renowned Régisseurs such as Copley, Warner, Loy, Miller, Armfield, Martone and Cox, in over fifteen different productions. In London’s Covent Garden he directed concert-stagings of Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Così fan tutte and an all-Shakespearian operas program, and a production of Diary of Poems, a double bill based on works by Janácek and Debussy for the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House.
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Working as free-lance director since 2005, he has staged a wide variety of works: Idomeneo (2005), Mozart y Salieri (and Mozart’s Requiem), Der Schauspieldirektor, Andrea Chénier (2006), La fille du régiment, Savitri, Une éducation maqueée, Diary of the one who disappeared (2007), Le donne cambiate, Cendrillon, Ariadne auf Naxos, Samson et Dalila(2008), Falstaff, The barber of seville, Dido & Aeneas, Der Rosenkavalier, La bella dormente nel bosco, Der Zwerg, L’occasione fa il ladro, Trouble in Tahiti (2009/10). André Heller-Lopes has enjoyed a particular success in the more dramatic late nineteen-century and verismo works, as with twenty century operas. His production of Janácek’s The Diary of the One who Disappeared and Savitri was described as “one of the best shows of the year” (Opera – UK), while his production of Ariadne auf Naxos was defined as “ adventurous, fearless staging” (Folha de São Paulo – Brazil).
Future plans include a new production of Hansel und Gretel (Lisbon) and the revival of his successful production of Andrea Chenier (Belo Horizonte).
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