About
Born in Kyiv, grown up in Germany, Kateryna graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London) with a Master’s degree and went on to work in theatres such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam and Schauspielhaus Zürich. She was assistant to such directors as Christof Loy, Alvis Hermanis, René Pollesch, Stefan Pucher, Hans Neuenfels, Damiano Micheletto and Stefan Herheim. In 2014 she staged A Hero Of Our Time at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 2016 and 2017 she staged Verdi’s Macbeth and Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail at the Staatstheater Oldenburg.
2019 brought stagings of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, as well as Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna at the Konzerthaus Wien and Baltimore under the musical direction of Marin Alsop. A staging of Le Nozze di Figaro at Theater an der Wien followed in 2021. Kateryna’s most recent projects include The Cunning Little Vixen, Rusalka, Jenufa at Theater Freiburg, Luisa Miller at Theater Luzern, Macbeth at Staatstheater Nürnberg/Oper Graz, Richard III at Kammeroper Theater an der Wien, Rigoletto at Aalto Theater Essen, Die Ameise at Theater Bonn and Turandot at Staatstheater Nürnberg.
From 2019 on, she taught at the Institute for Voice and Musical Theatre of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Kateryna Sokolova is a member of the European Academy of Music Theatre.
sokolovakat@aol.de
+43 676 789 63 02
Director
Turandot
G. Verdi / 2026 / Staatstheater Nürnberg
Die Ameise
Peter Ronnefeld / 2025 / Theater Bonn
Rigoletto
G. Verdi / 2025 / Aalto Theater Essen
Luisa Miller
G. Verdi / 2025 /Theater Luzern
Macbeth
G. Verdi / 2024 u. 5 / Oper Graz, Staatstheater Nürnberg
Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck / 2023 / Theater Freiburg
Rusalka
Antonin Dvorak / 2023 / Theater Freiburg
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Benjamin Britten / 2022 / Theater Akzent
Das schlaue Füchslein
Leoš Janáček / 2021 / Theater Freiburg
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / 2020 / Theater an der Wien, Vienna
Sancta Susanna
Paul Hindemith / 2019 / Baltimore / Washington / Vienna
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / 2019 / Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, Vienna
Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart / 2017 / Oldenburg State Theatre
Macbeth
Giuseppe Verdi / Co-Director / Director: Nadja Loschky / 2016 / Oldenburg State Theatre
A Hero of Our Time
after Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time, adapted for the stage by Kateryna Sokolova / 2014 / Schauspielhaus Zürich
Assistant Director (excerpts)
Staatsoper München (2022)
Peter Grimes/ Director: Stefan Herheim
Theater an der Wien (2012-2023)
The Cunning Little Vixen / Director: Stefan Herheim Amal/ Director: Stefan Herheim
La donna del lago / Director: Christof Loy
Charodejka / Director: Christof Loy
Peter Grimes / Director: Christof Loy
The Fairy Queen / Director: Mariame Clement
Deutsche Oper Berlin (2012)
Lohengrin /Director: Kasper Holten
Jenůfa / Director: Christof Loy
De Nationale Opera Amsterdam (2016)
Kohvanchina / Director: Christof Loy
Schauspielhaus Zürich (2012-2014)
Wagner – Wie ich Welt wurde / Director: Hans Neuenfels
Die Geschichte von Kaspar Hauser / Director: Alvis Hermanis
Der Diener zweier Herren / Director: Barbara Frey
Herein! Herein! / Director: René Pollesch
Woyzeck / Director: Stefan Pucher
Kinder der Sonne / Director: Daniela Löffner
Felix Krull / Director: Lars-Ole Walburg
Innsbrucker Festspiele der Alten Musik (2020)
Leonora / Director: Mariame Clément
Education
Master of Arts
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
London, 2012
Bachelor of Arts
Theatre, Film, and Media Studies
University of Vienna, 2010
Miscellanea
Member of the European Academy of Music Theatre
Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Winner of the German federal competition Jugend musiziert, Hesse, (Category Piano) in 2004 and 2006
Piano Education
Classical ballet education at the National Opera Kiev (Ukraine) and the Kassel State Theatre (Germany)