NOEMI SCHLOSSER
STAGE DIRECTOR, PLAYWRIGHT & COACH
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Noémi Schlosser (1978) graduated under Dora van der Groen and Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove at the Antwerp Conservatory in Belgium. At the beginning of her career, she worked extensively as an actress and evolved towards stage directing in theatre, musical and opera.
These days Schlosser divides her professional endeavors between directing and constantly growing her extensive portfolio comprising a wide range of opera productions ready to stage including, Flavio (Haendel), Il Trovatore (Verdi), Jenůfa (Janáček), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Mathilde di Shabran (Rossini) and is currently tackling The Magic Flute (Mozart).
In 2017 Schlosser relocated to Israel where she regularly directs for the Jerusalem Opera. She freelances at the Israeli Opera and teaches at the Buchmann Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and the Jerusalem University for the Academy of Music and Dance.
Noémi Schlosser coaches singers and actors privately to achieve their aspirations and dreams and prepares them for upcoming auditions and role debuts internationally.
UPCOMING SUMMER - FALL 2024
Noemi will join the Faculty of the Prague Summer Nights, the Young Artist Program of the Opera Studio & Opera Academy.
On October 7th, Noemi will direct KADDISH ORIYA at the Israeli Opera.
This World Premiere is a commemorative concert for the MASSACRE on October 7th, 2023.
KADDISH ORIYA is a composition for 60 people choir, soloists, and wind orchestra, by Hannie Ricardo the mother of Oriya, who was murdered at the Nova Festival.
Tickets to attend the performance or to watch by live stream are available HERE
CURRICULUM VITAE
OPERA
OPERA DIRECTOR
2023 La Princesse Jaune & autres histoires/ Saint Saens - The Jerusalem Opera - Israel Premiere October (postponed due to war)
2021 Une Education Manquee/ Chabrier- Jerusalem Opera - Maestro Arieli Israel Premiere
2021 Le marriage aux lanternes/ Offenbach - Maestro Arieli Jerusalem Opera
2019 La Colombe/Gounod - The Jerusalem Opera - Maestro Arieli Israel Premiere
2017 La Bohème/Puccini - Maestro Patrick Baton Israel Jerusalem Summer Academy
2011 Transit /mixed works - Theatre Witt Chicago
2007 Le Bel indifferent/Cocteau + La Dame de Monte Carlo/Poulenc Raamtheater - Belgium/NL/Morocco
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DRAMATURGE & ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
THE MINISTRY OF OPERATIC AFFAIRS / ISRAELI OPERA
2023 Ariodante/ Handel, David Mc Vicar - Maestro Jean Christophe Spinosi, Vienna Staatsoper
2023 Don Giovanni/ Mozart, Kasper Holten - Maestro Nimrod Pfeffer, The Royal Opera House
2023 Cavaleria Rustica+ Aleko/ Mascagni/ Rachmaninov, creation by J.A Rechi - Maestro de Marchi
2022 Contes d'Hoffmann/Offenbach by Stefano Poda - Maestro Ettinger, Opera de Lausanne
2022 Aida/Verdi by Stathis Livathinos - Maestro Carella, La Monnaie Bruxelles
2022 Pagliacci/ Leoncavallo creation by Inbal Pinto - Maestro Callegari
2022 Alcina/Handel creation by Ido Ricklin - Maestro Schmeisser
2021 Traviata/Verdi creation by Alessandro Talevi - Maestro Ettinger
2021 Onegin/ Tchaikovski Jean Claude Auvray - Maestro Ettinger
2021 The Magic Flute/ Mozart Barrie Kosky - Maestro Pfeffer, Komische Oper Berlin
2020 Barbiere di Siviglia/ Rossini Martin Lyngbo - Maestro de Marcchi, Royal Danish Opera
2019 Dead Man Walking/ Heggie Tomer Zvulun - Maestro Patrich Summer, Atlanta Opera
2018 Don Giovanni/Mozart Kasper Holten Maestro Daniel Oren, The Royal Opera House
2017 La Boheme/Puccini Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera - Maestro Ciluffo, Opera de Wallonie
2016 Acis and Galatea /Handel - creation
2016 Dido and Aeneas/Purcell - creation
2015 Cosi fan Tutte/Mozart - creation
2014 Orpheo and Eurydice/Gluck creation
2013 Don Giovanni/Mozart creation
THEATRE
SALOMEE SPEELT THEATRE COMPANY 2004-2018
Schlosser director, performer, playwright*, and producer
2015 DATE ME TLV COMEDY* Israel
2015 TRAKTORFABRIK* American Premiere NYC
2014 TRAKTORFABRIK* Belgian Premiere and international tour
2013 Yes, we have no bananas* Belgian Premiere Antwerp
2012 Yes, we have no bananas* French Premiere Paris
2012 Andromac/Racine Chicago
2012 Sound of Silence/Cocteau Chicago
2011 La Musica/Duras Chicago
2011 Date Me* Chicago
2011 MOSCOW-NEW YORK* American Premiere NYC
2009 MOSCOW-NEW YORK* Belgian Premiere
2008 Hollywood* Belgium
2008 Jewish Humor Nights* Belgium
2007 Transit/Cocteau Belgium
2007 Alice in A* Belgium
2007 Walk on By/ Burt Bacharach big band concert Belgium
2004 Le Bel Indifferent/Cocteau Belgium
FREELANCE ACTRESS TELEVISION-THEATER-MUSICAL-PERFORMANCE ARTS 2001-2013 *highlights*
2003-9 The smile off your face/Ontroerend Goed Winner Edinburgh Festival
2002-7 Barre Weldaad, GHB
2006-7 Barre Weldaad, Donna Quichot
2006 Oliver Twist (Nancy) Music Hall Belgium
2005 Proof (Catherine) Raamtheater Belgium
2003 Flikken VRT television Belgium
2003 Chris and Co VTM television Belgium
2002 Yours, Anne - Judas Theatre Productions (Margot) Enid Futterman & Michael Cohen, Belgian Premiere
PLAYWRIGHT
2021 The four seasons of Hester Street
2015 DATE ME! TLV
2014 TRAKTORFABRIK
2011 DATE ME! CHICAGO
2009 MOSCOW-NEW YORK
2008 FRANNY & ZOOEY
2008 DATE ME! ANTWERP with Ahsan Naeem/Sura Dohnke
2007 ALICE IN A with Camille Reynders
INTERNATIONAL TOURS
2014-15 Traktorfabrik NYC, Chicago, Italy, Spain, Berlin
2012 Assistant to Mme Lefevre, Artistic director Opera Garnier Paris, on American tour 2012
2011 MOSCOW-NEW YORK, New York performances
2011 Representative of Belgian Culture Ministry tour USA “Red Star Line” Museum opening
2008 Le bel Indifferent/ Salomee Speelt Morocco
2003-09 The Smile off your face/Ontroerend Goed international tours, (Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco a.o) Winner Edinburgh Festival
RESIDENCIES
2011-12 Shpiel, theater of Jewish Identity, Chicago with Lookingglass Theatre
2007-15 Arenbergschouwburg Antwerp
SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS AND OTHERS
2013 TheaterTreffen Berliner Festspiele Festival Berlin
2013 Asylum Art Retreat NYC
2013 Masterclass Jan Fabre/Troubleyn Belgium
2011 Finalist Operare Berlin
2011 Paideia Sweden
2011 ROI Community
TEACHING CAREER
SUMMER FESTIVALS & OPERA STUDIO
2024 Prague Summer Nights Festival
2017 Lyrical Summer Opera Jerusalem
TEACHING OPERA ENSEMBLE, ACTING, ANALYSIS & MOVEMENT TO SINGERS
2022 AT PRESENT Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Mehta- L’Enfant et les sortileges, Ravel production
2017 AT PRESENT Academia Le Musica Jerusalem University
2005 Masterclasses Judas Theater Productions ( Musical)
2004 Masterclass Musical Carrousel
TEACHING THEATRE
2012 Masterclasses UCLA2012 Lecturer LeMood Montreal
2011 Masterclasses at Lookingglass Theatre Chicago
2001-08 Teaching theatre in Belgium institutions
PRIVATE ACTING COACH
2011 AT PRESENT
SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES
2023 VOICE ALL OVER 2023 CONFERENCE BUCHMANN MEHTA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
PUBLIC SPEAKING COACH
2022 AT PRESENT
CURATOR
2008 Jewish Culture Year of the Province of Antwerp
BOARD MEMBER
2011-2018 American Jewish Theatre Association European and Middle East representative
2010 – at present European and Middle East representative for the League of Professional Women in the Theatre
DOCUMENTARY and ARCHIVE
2015- at present The Youth of 1948
70 interviews - 250 hours of footage celebrating the little stories behind the birth of the first and only Jewish State.
EDUCATION
1997-2001 Master Dramatic Arts Conservatorium Antwerp Hoger Herman Teirlinck Institute Theatre Dora van der Groen -
CUM LAUDE under Ivo van Hove
2000-2001 Master Theatre Director Pedagogical degree
1991-1997 KTA option Latin-Greek
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