Lubor Cukr

Lubor Cukr was born in Prague. Since 1999 he has been working in the Prague State Opera as a stage director adjoin. He has collaborated with Heinz Lukas-Kinderman, Gilbert Blin, Paul-Émile Fourny, Daniel Mesguich, Arnaud Bernard, Nathan Datner, Philippe Godefroid, David Pountney, Roman Hovenbitzer, Karel Drgáč, Anton Nekovar. He is also collaborating very often with Opéra de Nice: with Gilbert Blin for Vivaldi’s Rosmira Fedele (2003) and for Händel’s Teseo (2007), with Jean-Claude Riber for Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (2004) and with Olivier Bénézech for Mozart’s Idomeneo (2004) and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (2005) – this production being presented also in Opéra de Toulon (2007).

He staged for example the contemporary opera of J.F. Fischer – The Plays (2003) on the occasion of the Prague festival “Opera 2003”, Benjamin Britten – The Little Sweep (2005) for Children opera Prague, with his own translation and texts in Czech. In the year of the anniversary of W. A. Mozart (2006) he staged a reconstruction of Don Giovanni for the company Opera Mozart. This historical production was presented in 2006, 2007 and 2008 in the Estate Theatre, Prague. In 2008 he staged the new production of Mozart’s – Le Nozze di Figaro for Opéra de Nice. In 2003 Lubor Cukr joined the research group of Académie Desprez, Association Française pour le Rayonnement du Théâtre de Drottningholm.