Opera lifts curtain on full list of applicants for artistic director

In one of those gleaming acts of Scandinavian transparency, Norwegian Opera has published the list of applicants for its vacancy to succeed Per Boye Hansen as artistic director in 2017.

The list includes a 19 year-old student and one Italian who has crashed several companies in his own country.

But there are some interesting candidates from Paris, Rome, Vienna and South America.

Covent Garden might start checking some of those names.

Amanda Vågfelt Almén (19), Student, Strømstad
Ivan Kyurkchiev (no age), Artistic Director, Sofia
Eugenia Arsenis (n.a.), Director-Dramaturg, Ph.d., Athen, New York
Lorenzo Mariani (60), Stage director, Roma
Giuseppe Cuccia (n.a.), Artistic consultant, Palermo
Louis Gentile (n.a.), Teacher, producer, coach, Bonn
Niv Hoffman (43), Assistant director, Vienna
Enrique Carreón-Robledo (n.a.), Visiting Director of Orchestral Studies, Professor of Conducting, Tulsa
Alessio Vlad (60), Artistic Director, Roma
Grimur Grimsson (n.a.), Stage manager og oppsynsmann, Reykjavik
Robert Ernst Castellitz (n.a.), Artistic Director, Freiburg
Marco Spada (n.a.), Artistic Director, Roma
Sam Brown (n.a.), Stage director, London
Christina Harris (n.a.), Project Manager, London
Reinhard Linden (58), Artistic Director, Kiel
Katrin Kolo (44), Founder and Director, Zürich
Henrik Schaefer (n.a.), Music Director, Göteborg
Ludek Golat (61), General Manager, Ostrava
Giuseppe Acquaviva (46), Artistic Director, Livorno
Andreas Fladvad-Geier (n.a.), Ballet and opera advisor, Baden-Baden
Andrejs Zagars (57), Stage director, Riga
Mauro Meli (61), Adjunct professor of management and economy of cultural institutions, Felino
Massimo Guantini (ikke kjent), Artistic director and creator, MilanoRok Rappl (36), Artistic Director, Ljubljana
Annilese Miskimmon (41), General Manager and Artistic Director, Aarhus
Walter Sutcliffe (n.a), Stage director, Berling
Tyrone Patersen (n.a.), Conductor, advisor, Ottawa
Michael Hunt (n.a.), Producer, Hastings
Michal Znaniecki (n.a), Stage director, Warsaw
Leonid Jivetsky (31), Artistic Administrator, Moskva
Elanie Kidd (n.a.), Director of Artistic Planning, Glasgow
Inger Oliv Strand Butel (46), Selvstendig næringsdrivende, Oslo
Didier de Cottignies (59), Artistic Director, Paris
André Heller-Lopes (44), Stage director, Rio de Janeiro
Ivan Van Kalmthout (n.a.), Senior Arts Administrator, London
Lutz Wengler (n.a.), Acting intendant opera and opera director, Mannheim
Gjøril Songvoll (46), Festivalsjef, Oslo
Niels Erik Muus (57), Professor and Director of Opera Masters Progam, Vienna
Alessandro Sangiori (55), Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, Londrina
Espen Selvik (56), Director, Bergen
David Lomeli (n.a.), Assistant Artistic Administrator & Special Projects,
Jon Paul Laka (51), General Manager, Bilbao
Fergus Sheil (n.a.), Artistic Director, Meath