Manuel Braun is a director and video artist. As a director, he has worked at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Volkstheater Munich. He works regularly with Tobias Kratzer at the Frankfurt Opera (La Force du destin), La Monnaie in Brussels (Lucio Silla), the Royal Opera House in London (Fidelio), the Oper Halle (Bastien und Bastienne), the Bayreuth Festival (Tannhäuser), the Komische Oper in Berlin (Le Baron tzigane), the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (Moïse et Pharaon). His video work on The Prophet in Karlsruhe brought him to the attention of a wide opera audience. After starting out as a video editor and assistant cameraman, he worked as a video designer with Tomas Schweigen, Simon Solberg and Christian Stuckl in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Munich. He has created video clips for British poet Kae Tempest (notably Europe is lost, jury prize from the Silhouette association in 2017). His short film Antigone earned him an invitation to speak at the Rencontres Théâtrales de Berlin, and his online production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has attracted international attention. Recent video credits include Schwanda le Cornemuseux at MusikTheater an der Wien, La Passagère at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Le Triptyque at Teatro Regio di Torino.At the Opéra national de Paris: Faust, 2021

Manuel BraunVideographer