Lyric Opera 2025-2026 Issue 8 - Salome

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 26 JULIA BURBACH REVIVAL DIRECTOR Lyric debut Burbach began her operatic career as an observer at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich. She was a staff director at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London and worked with multiple directors and revived major productions worldwide. Recent highlights include: La Cenerentola (ENO, London Coliseum), Der fliegende Holländer (Opera Holland Park), Partenope (Oper Frankfurt), Alcina (Oper Wuppertal), L’elisir d’amore (Státni Opera Prague), Eugene Onegin (Theater Lübeck), Der singende Teufel (Theater Bonn), Manon Lescaut (Theater Kiel), Götterdämmerung and Siegfried (Hackney Empire), Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park), La Bohème (Theater Bielefeld), Edmea (Wexford Opera Festival), Die Walküre (Hackney Empire), Wundertheater (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), Semele (Shanghai International Festival), Die Walküre (Opéra National de Bordeaux), Das Rheingold (OFFIE nomination 2020) and Die Walküre (OFFIE nomination 2020, both at Grimeborn Festival), L’ amico Fritz (Opera Holland Park), Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Alte Münze Berlin), The Fairy Queen (Bury Court/ Wilde Renate Berlin), Tosca (Grimeborn Festival), Madama Butterfly (Grimeborn Festival/Bury Court), as well as The Rape of Lucretia (Grimeborn Festival) which was awarded an OFFIE 2020 for best opera. ES DEVLIN DESIGNER Lyric debut The artist and designer’s opera work includes Carmen (Bregenzer Festspiele), Otello (the Metropolitan Opera), and Don Giovanni (Royal Ballet and Opera), among others. Recent theatre work includes: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company); Dear England (National Theatre, West End, and UK National Tour); the Broadway transfer of the Almeida production The Hunt ; Tony Award winning The Lehman Trilogy (including West End and Broadway transfers); The Motive and The Cue and The Crucible (National Theatre and West End transfers); Coriolanus , Light Shining in Buckinghamshire , and Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre); A Number (Old Vic); Girls and Boys and The Nether (Royal Court Theatre); Faith Healer (Donmar Warehouse); Hamlet (Barbican); and Chimerica (Almeida Theatre). Other designs and collaborations include: Come Home Again for the Tate Modern; Conference of the Trees for COP26 in Glasgow; Memory Palac e for Pitzhanger Manor; stage sculptures for Beyoncé, The Weeknd, U2, Kanye West, Saint Laurent, and Dior; the 2021 and 2022 Super Bowl halftime shows; Olympic ceremonies in London and Rio; and the UK Pavilion at EXPO 2020. WOLFGANG GÖBBEL ORIGINAL LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: La damnation de Faust (2009/10). The late German lighting designer’s extensive opera work includes productions in Hamburg, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Mannheim, Aachen, Stuttgart, Munich, and Frankfurt as well as Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Volksoper Wien, De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, La Monnaie Brüssel, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen and Gent, English National Opera, Royal Ballet and Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Grand Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, National Theatre Tokyo, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Regio Torino, Théâtre du Chatelêt, and Teatro alla Scala Milano. He was a guest at the Aldeburgh Festival, Festival d’automne, Bregenzer Festspiele, Salzburger Festspiele, Edinburgh International Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Holland Festival, Spoleto Festival dei due mondi, Styriarte Graz, Wiener Festwochen, and Theatrefestival Moscow, and in 1997 was nominated for the Lawrence Olivier Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Opera” (Best lighting design Tristan und Isolde at the English National Opera and Midsummer Marriage at the Royal Ballet and Opera). CHRIS MARAVICH REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Lyric’s lighting director served in the same position from 2006 to 2012 at San Francisco Opera, where he created lighting for many productions including The Gospel of Mary Magdalene , Così fan tutte , Turandot , Cyrano de Bergerac , Il trittico , Tosca , Simon Boccanegra , Don Giovanni , Nixon in China , and Attila . He has collaborated on the lighting designs for Wozzeck (Finnish National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève), Doktor Faust at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Tannhäuser for Greek National Opera, and La fanciulla del West , The Makropulos Case , The Daughter of the Regiment , Il trovatore , Samson et Dalila , and Macbeth for San Francisco Opera. Maravich has also designed lighting for LA Opera, Opera Colorado, San Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Florida Grand Opera, Madison Opera, Cal Performances, and Opera San José. He currently serves as lighting supervisor for The Joffrey Ballet. Chris Maravich is supported by the Mary-Louise and James S.Aagaard Lighting Director Endowed Chair.