Positions and leading Positions

Since 2018 Leadership department Opera/Musicaltheatre at PAMY Mediaproductions, Switzerland: www.pamy.ch. 

2004 – 2006: Oberspielleiterin at Deutsche Oper Berlin with revivals of Rheingold, Siegfried (Götz Friedrich), Lulu (Götz Friedrich), Die Tote Stadt (Philippe Arlaud), La Bohème (Götz Friedrich), Pelléas et Mélisande (Marco Arturo Marelli), Der Rosenkavalier (Götz Friedrich), Cav/Pag (David Pountney).

2001 - 2004: main director opera at Stadttheater Bremerhaven 

1994 -1998: assistant stage director of Hamburgische Staatsoper and has worked among others with Christine Mielitz, Harry Kupfer, Günther Krämer, Achim Freyer, Marco Arturo Marelli a.o. She was responsible for revivals such as: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Il Trittico (also for TV), Die Fledermaus, Tristan und Isolde, a.o. 

During this period Jasmin Solfaghari collaborated with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Sir Simon Rattle, Philippe Augin, Jacques Lacombe, Marc Albrecht, Antonello Allemandi, Donald Runnicles, Markus Stenz, Lothar Zagosek, a.o.

Jasmin Solfaghari worked with singers as Deborah Voigt (Debut Marschallin), Veronique Gens, Sophie Koch, Agnes Baltsa, Helga Dernesch, Gabriele Schnaut, Hanna Schwarz, Lisbeth Balslev, Angelika Kirchschlager, Montserrat Caballé, Barbara Daniels, Linda Watson, Evelyn Herlizius, Olga Romanko, Piotr Becala, Toopi Lehtipuu, Jean Marc Ainsley, Lioba Braun, Graham Clarc, Lance Ryan, Stefan Vinke, José Cura, Franz Grundheber, Simon Estes, Matti Salminnen, René Pape, Kurt Moll, Torsten Kerl, Gerhard Siegel, Catherine Foster, Jennifer Wilson, Ricarda Merbeth (Role debut Brünnhilde, Deutsche Oper)  a.o.

Teaching and more

2006-2011 Professor at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig (interimistic).

Since 2011 multilingual  Masterclasses, Coachings, Lectures, Teaching assignments at Opernschule Stuttgart, Hochschule für Musik Dresden, Rostock. She teaches in Brasil, China, Israel, The USA and Italy.

Jasmin Solfaghari wrote at publisher SCHOTT: Opernführer für Einsteiger (German-Alemannic; German-Saxonian (both 2017); German-Franconian (2019), Opera Guide for Beginners (2020, Translated by Dr. Ursula and Alan Cemore), Crashkurs Oper (both 2020), and Ich schreite kaum, doch wähn' ich mich schon weit. Parsifal at am Goetheanum (2024).

Jasmin Solfaghari was born in Freiburg/Germany in 1963 as daughter of German-Persian parents. After having spent the first six years of her childhood in Teheran/Iran she got her school and musical education in Freiburg. In 1989 she graduated in stage directing at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in the class of Götz Friedrich (diploma). 

Activities

Member of FIDAR (Frauen in die Aufsichtsräte)

Sustaining Member of BPW Germany (Business and Professional women)

Member board of advisers "Kalaidos Musikhochschule", Zürich, Switzerland