Wouter Van Looy is an active participant in the international opera and music-theatre world. His creations have premiered at the Ruhrtriënnale, Staatsoper Berlin, Luzerner Theater, Theaterspektakel Zürich, Mexico Musica y Escena in Mexico, Opéra de Lille, Centro Cultural de Bélem in Lisbon, Holland Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and elsewhere. He is a director-in-residence at Muziektheater Transparant and is co-artistic director with Guy Coolen. Van Looy was recently nominated by Opern Welt for his directing of Kopernikus at the Staatsoper Berlin.

Wouter Van Looy also founded Zonzo Compagnie and organises BIG BANG, an adventurous music festival for a young audience that operates in thirteen European cities and, since 2019, also in Ottawa. BIG BANG received the EFFE award for its role as one of Europe’s most innovative festivals. Zonzo Compagnie has staged such award-winning productions as Listen to the silence, Slumberland, Mile(s)tones and BerBerio. Wouter Van Looy has won the YAMA Award (2012, 2015 and 2019), the KLARA prize (2013), the YEAH Award (2013), the Music Theatre NOW Award (2015) and the EFFE award (2015).

Photo: Mirjam Devriendt

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