Michiel Dijkema

Michiel Dijkema studied piano at the Utrecht University of the Arts and music theatre direction at the Berlin University of Music. He was a visiting professor at the Berlin Academy of Music and worked for the opera class in Enschede and for the Dutch National Opera Academy. He was also active as a song accompanist. He staged operas such as »Carmen«, »Pelléas et Mélisande«, »L'Orfeo«, »La Cenerentola«, »Il Barbiere di Siviglia«, »Il Turco in Italia«, »Cavalleria Rusticana«, »Pagliacci«, »Hansel and Gretel«, »The Flying Dutchman«, »Hamlet«, »The Bartered Bride«, »Faust«, »L'amour des trois oranges«, »The Magic Flute«, »Die Entführung aus dem Serail«, »Rusalka«, »A Midsummer Night's Dream«, »Tosca«, »Turandot«, »Madama Butterfly«, »Der fliegende Holländer« and »Lohengrin« in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Enschede, Stockholm, Gelsenkirchen, Tallinn, Wiesbaden, Leipzig, Koblenz, Moscow, Zagreb, Darmstadt, Hanover, Linz, Vienna, Dresden and Reykjavík. Michiel Dijkema has won various international opera directing awards. For example, his production of »Der Fliegende Holländer« was nominated for the International Opera Awards 2022 in Madrid as part of Oper Leipzig's WAGNER22 festival.