{"id":13525,"date":"2025-06-08T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/andre-heller-lopes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:53:41","slug":"andre-heller-lopes","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/andre-heller-lopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heller-Lopes Andr\u00e9, Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">One of the most active opera stage directors in Latin America, <strong>Andr\u00e9 Heller-Lopes<\/strong> has directed productions all over Brazil and also in countries such as Germany, Spain, Argentina, Portugal, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Poland, Germany, Austria, UK, Estonia, Malaysia and the USA. He trained at the prestigious <strong>San Francisco Merola Opera Program<\/strong> (2001) and at <strong>Covent Garden\u2019s Young Artist Programme<\/strong> (2003-2005). In 2013 he received the <strong>Britten100Award<\/strong> and his production of A midsummer night&#8217;s dream was a finalist in the best opera production category at the <strong>2014 Opera Awards<\/strong>. In 2025 he was awarded a prestigious grant by the Gulbenkian Foundation in order to study the influence of Wagnerism in Opera.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Artistic Director for the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro<\/strong> (2017-2020), Andr\u00e9 Heller-Lopes has also worked as Opera Coordinator for the city of Rio de Janeiro (2003-2008), casting director for the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira (2013) and artistic coordinator for Programa Jovens Int\u00e9rpretes at the <strong>Teatro Nacional de S\u00e3o Carlos<\/strong>,<strong> in Lisbon<\/strong> (2009-2012). A post-graduate from Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Federal University Music School, where he has been Professor for Stagecraft and History of Opera at its Voice Department since 1996. The<strong> King&#8217;s College<\/strong> <strong>London<\/strong> has awarded Andr\u00e9 Heller-Lopes the title of <strong>Philosophy Doctor Degree (Phd)<\/strong> in 2011. A regular guest for stagecraft masterclasses, he has taught at Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London, at the Acccademia del Teatro San Carlos di Napoli, at the INAE (Instituto de Artes Esceni-cas) in Uruguay or at the Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo, Teatro Mayor de Bogot\u00e1 or Chile\u2019s National Opera.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Andr\u00e9 Heller-Lopes&#8217; repertoire includes a wide variety of opera ranging from classical and baroque works (Med\u00e9e, Le Nozze di Figaro, Idomeneo, La Finta Giardineira, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Die Zauberlf\u00f6te or Renaud) to major Romantic operas (Tristan und Isolde, Carmen, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Aida, Lucia di Lammermoor, Samson et Dalila, Eugene Oneguin, Faust, Werther) and Verismo (Andrea Chenier, Adriana Lecouvreur, Tosca, Turandot, Manon Lescaut), to modern mas-terpieces (Salom\u00e9, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier, Der Zwerg, Savitri, The Case Makropu-los, The Cunning little Vixen, Katya Kabanova, Jenufa, La Voix Humaine) \u2014 all the way to Leh\u00e1r\u2019s Die Lustige Witiwe or Roger Water&#8217;s &#8216;rock-opera&#8217; \u00c7a Ira. 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