Nikolaus Bachler

Bachler was a cultural manager-director, moving the theater to the forefront, not like his predecessor Peymann, a warlike director.

Other highlights were the MTV Unplugged concerts by Die Toten Hosen, released on the album Nur zu Besuch in 2005.

He continued the artistic vision of his Burgtheater years, hiring opera directors such as Hans Neuenfels, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Martin Kušej, Krzysztof Warlikowski, and Calixto Bieito, as well as drama directors like David Bösch, Andreas Kriegenburg, and Antú Romero Nunes, who presented their first opera productions there.

He led new interpretations of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in 2012 and the world premieres of Peter Eötvös' Die Tragödie des Teufels (2010), Miroslav Srnka's Make No Noise (2011), Jörg Widmann's Babylon (2012), and Srnka's South Pole.

[4] At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Nikolaus Bachler appointed the conductor Kirill Petrenko as General Music Director.