Krystian Lada

Polish stage director Krystian Lada is the first recipient of the Mortier Next Generation Award and he was a finalist and prizewinner in the 2021 Ring Award. Krystian’s recent commitments include: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria for Theater Basel; Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno for Nationaltheater Mannheim; the World Premiere of Iain Bell’s Comfort Starving for the Bach Festival in Świdnica and the Opera Rara Festival, Krakow and The Mysteries of Desire - a pastiche - created for the Royal Danish Opera in collaboration with the World Pride Festival 2021. Other productions include: Vivaldi’s Bajazet for Theater an der Wien; Daniel Catán’s Florencia en al Amazonas for Theater St Gallen; Nabucco and I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Opera Wroclaw and Rossini’s Sigismondo for the Opera Rara Festival, Krakow. Krystian was the Director of Dramaturgy, Communication and Empowerment, and Artistic Adjunct at La Monnaie, Brussels between 2013-17, and since May 2017, he has been General and Artistic Director of The Airport Society: a Brussels-based cooperative of opera artists and social game changers, and for the company he has directed an developed the Premieres of Aria di Potenza and Unknown I Live with You.