Stage technician (m/f/d) for the double opera production "Gianni Schicchi"

The Heidenheim Opera Festival (www.opernfestspiele.de) is looking for stage technicians (m / f / d)


for the 2025 festival season

for the opera productions "Gianni Schicchi / Elektra" (opera double production for the Festspielhaus and the Rittersaal Schloss Hellenstein (open air), premiere 04.07.2025) and "Attila" (opera production in the Festspielhaus, premiere 17.07.2025) as well as for the concert productions and extra events at various venues as part of the festival.

The Heidenheim Opera Festival is a traditional, internationally oriented classical music festival with the highest artistic standards. The extensive summer festival program focuses on in-house opera productions and symphony concerts as well as the open-air venue Rittersaal Schloss Hellenstein and the modern, acoustically top-class Festspielhaus Congress Centrum Heidenheim. Marcus Bosch has been Artistic Director since 2010 and has developed the Opera Festival extremely dynamically: expansion of content and program, doubling of audience numbers and self-financing, cooperation with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and a series of early operas by Giuseppe Verdi make the Opera Festival one of the most interesting classical music festivals in Germany. The Opera Festival is a production company of the city of Heidenheim.

Responsibilities:
As a stage technician (m/f/d) you will report to the Technical Director of the Heidenheim Opera Festival and work with him/her in a team of other stage technicians and stagehands.

We expect you to:

• Provide technical support for rehearsals and performances of the opera productions "Gianni Schicchi / Elektra" and "Attila" as well as other concert productions and extra events

• Set up, dismantle and rebuild opera, concert and extra events at the venues

• Instruct stagehands during set up, dismantling and rebuilding

• Take charge of transportation between camps, Performance and rehearsal venues

• Collaborating on the weather-related relocation of the opera "Gianni Schicchi / Elektra" from the Festspielhaus indoor venue to the outdoorRittersaal Schloss Hellenstein venue and vice versa

• Collaboration on the technical implementation of the stage sets for the operas "Gianni Schicchi / Elektra" and "Attila" at the Rittersaal Schloss Hellenstein and Festspielhaus venues (in collaboration with the stage designers)

• Coordinated work in consultation with the technical management of the Opera Festival

• Solution-oriented collaboration with the other trades, the production teams, the Festival Management and the Artistic Operations Office

• participation in production and team meetings as required

• substitute for the Technical Director of the Opera Festival

Conditions:

• Contract duration: 01.05. - 15.08.2025 - in case of good performance, a continuation of the cooperation for the following festival season will be sought

• Billing on an hourly basis in a dependent employment according to TzBefrG

• Accommodation in Heidenheim will be provided for the duration of your stay

• Location: Heidenheim an der Brenz

Please apply with the usual documents (CV, certificates, proof of employment / references etc.).).

Your profile:

We are looking for motivated applicants with the following requirements:

• Desirable is a completed training as a specialist for event technology with a focus on stage technology

• Alternatively, you have completed vocational training or have professional experience as a locksmith*, Carpenter* or in another craft training (*m/w/d)

• ideally professional experience in music theater operations and/or festival operations

• high technical / manual competence

• willingness to work flexible hours, especially in the festival area

• High level of commitment and ability to work under pressure

• Responsibility and reliability

• Team skills and commitment

• Artistic empathy for the special processes of opera productions and for the festival business itself

• Driver's license class B