Mien Bogaert

The Belgian stage director, text-writer and set designer Mien Bogaert is an extremely versatile music theatre and opera artist. Beside staging repertoire operas, he also collaborates with contemporary music composers in order to create new works. His striking visual language is achieved by lots of self-made set elements and intense collaborations with costume designers. The stagings Mien Bogaert develops and the texts he writes, are deeply rooted in (art)history and often address societal challenges such as climate change, migration flows and the continuation of the European project. text writing Mien Bogaert started his career writing dramaturgical texts for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen and la Monnaie. From 2019 until 2021 he was the dramaturg of Klarafestival Bruss