Ursel Herrmann began her theatrical career as a dramaturge at Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus in the early 1980s before establishing herself as a director through her collaborative work with Karl-Ernst Herrmann, most notably with Mozart's *La clemenza di Tito* at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels (1982). Over the following decades, she became a fixture at Europe's most prestigious opera houses and festivals—the Salzburg Festival, Vienna Festival, and Royal Opera House among them—developing a reputation for intellectually rigorous, visually distinctive productions that treated operatic classics as living texts worthy of contemporary interrogation. Her parallel career as a design educator at Munich's Academy of Visual Arts reinforced her influence on a generation of theatre artists.
Core director at the Salzburg Festival during the Gerard Mortier era (1992–2001), where she staged multiple productions including *La clemenza di Tito* (1992, 1994)
Free University of Berlin
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