Joachim Schamberger has gained great acclaim as an international stage director and video designer. His productions have appeared in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Brazil, Norway, Israel, Japan and China. In addition to directing and designing, Schamberger is an avid opera educator. He has joined the Bienen School of Music as Director of Opera in the Fall of 2017 and is on faculty at many young artist festivals and guest lectures at conservatories throughout the world.
Recent productions include Orfeo ed Euridice for The Dallas Opera, Wagner’s Die Walküre and Siegfried for Virginia Opera, Carmen with Chicago Opera Theater, Dog Days and Orfeo remote (an opera-film mini series) for Northwestern Opera Theater, and Verdi’s Il Trovatore as well as Die Fledermaus with Central City Opera. In 2026 he will direct and design a new production of Verdi’s Aida for Virginia Opera.
A native of Germany, Schamberger is a graduate of the Musikhochschule in Würzburg, the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim, and the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera. He studied digital film production and 3-D animation at the New York Film Academy. For more information please visit: www.joachimschamberger.com