Lotte de Beer

Lotte de Beer (born 11 August 1981 ) is a Dutch opera director and administrator.

Biography Raised in Mheer in the Zuid-Limburg region of Limburg, de Beer studied singing and piano in her youth. She subsequently developed an interest in acting, and studied acting at the Toneelschool Maastricht. She subsequently studied directing at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, from which she graduated in 2009. She was a prizewinner in the Ton Lutz Awards in 2009 for grooste regietalent (greatest directing talent), and Pierre Audi. and The New Prince, both for Dutch National Opera.

Outside the Netherlands, de Beer directed the Bavarian State Opera's first full staging of Puccini's Il Trittico, in Italian, in December 2017. She has directed productions at the Bregenz Festival, the Aalto-Musiktheater (Essen), the Theater an der Wien, effective 1 September 2022, with an initial contract of 5 years. In June 2024, the Vienna Volksoper announced the extension of de Beer's contract to 2032.

In 2015, de Beer was a prize winner in the Newcomer category of the International Opera Awards in London.