Johanna Dombois is an internationally active Berlin-born opera director and author. She has practiced music theatre and media art in collaboration with the London Young Vic, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, De Nederlandse Opera / Het Muziektheater Amsterdam, Staatstheater Kassel, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, and the ZKM Karlsruhe. From 2001-2005 she was Artistic Director of the Stage for Music Visualization at the Beethoven House in Bonn. In 2006 she received her Ph.D. with a dissertation on Richard Wagner's music-aesthetic dramaturgies.

The main focus of her work is opera as an autonomous art form: she engages with visual and graphic music, installation, object and mask theatre, the historical avant-gardes, and New Technologies, i.e., the experimental within the repertoire and the possibilities of merging traditional and contemporary, linear and non-linear media on the opera stage. Recent productions include Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, 21. Jahrhundert (Bonn, 2004), Presto 126/4 (2004), Richard Wagner: Ring-Studie 01: Rheingold (Berlin/Hildesheim/Basel, 2008-09), and Neither by Morton Feldman, as well as Quadrat I + II by Samuel Beckett. www.jhnndmbs.net