Beka
Savic

Beka Savić was born in Yugoslavia. She studied Dramatic Writing and Dramaturgy at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. While still a student, she worked as an assistant director and dramaturg at Serbia’s leading opera houses and theatres.

From 2011 to 2014, she served as Assistant Director at Oper Köln. As Artistic Director of the Cologne Children’s Opera during the 2013/14 season, she made her directorial debut with Igor Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol (The Nightingale).

From 2014 to 2017, Beka Savić was Staff Director at the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden. There, she supervised a large number of opera revivals, including Le nozze di Figaro, Tosca, Falstaff, and Don Pasquale. As Associate Director to Uwe Eric Laufenberg, she worked on all four parts of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Between 2015 and 2019, she directed seven productions in Wiesbaden across almost all theatrical genres. These included productions of the operas Hänsel und Gretel and Un ballo in maschera, the latter successfully opening the 2018 International May Festival in Wiesbaden. In the spoken theatre division, she directed Terror, Roman Trilogy, Jane Eyre, and The Idiot. For the latter two productions, she also created her own stage adaptations.

Alongside her work at the Wiesbaden State Theatre, she served as Co-Director to Dietrich Hilsdorf for Der fliegende Holländer at the Darmstadt State Theatre during the 2017/18 season. In the 2018/19 season, Beka Savić made her debut at the Munich Chamber Opera with Così fan tutte. Her adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was also staged by Nora Schüssler at Mathilde Westend in January. This was followed by her production of the opera Betterplazes at Neuköllner Oper in Berlin.

Since the 2020/21 season, she has served as Artistic Production Manager and Advisor to the General Director at Theater für Niedersachsen (tfn) in Hildesheim. There, in addition to directing Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata, Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, and Giovanni Pacini’s Medea, she also directed the stage adaptation of Under the Dragonwall (Unter der Drachenwand) by Arno Geiger and Anke Kell.

In the 2026/27 season, her debut production of Igor Stravinsky’s The Nightingale, originally created in 2015, will return to the Cologne Children’s Opera, this time on the stage of the newly built and unique Children’s Opera House at Offenbachplatz.