Manuel Braun

Manuel Braun is a video artist and theater director. His collaborations with Tobias Kratzer and Rainer Sellmaier have taken him to venues including the Opéra Bastille in Paris (Gounod’s Faust), Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon), and the Frankfurt Opera (Verdi’s La forza del destino). As a director of music videos, he created the video for Kae Tempest’s Europe is Lost, which was named Video of the Year by the Association Silhouette Paris in 2017. Further credits include his video tour through Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7 with Joana Mallwitz, and video design for Puccini’s Il trittico at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2022. In 2023, he was awarded the German prize Der Faust for his work on Strauss’ Arabella at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.