Veronika Kos Loulová (1995) is leaving her position as artistic director of the MDO’s opera and operetta ensemble at the end of this season after a three-year tenure. The founder of RUN OPERUN, an organization dedicated to the popularization of opera, was at the time the youngest opera house director in Europe. In her function she tried to bring new impulses and approaches to opera in Olomouc. She reached out to renowned directors such as Daniela Špinar (Bluebeard's Castle), Jiří Havelka (Titus), Petr Erbes and Boris Jedinák (Ad Matrem) or Michal Hába (La Traviatta), as well as young talents such as Eliška Říhová (Hansel and Gretel) or Matyáš Dlab and Lukáš Jiřička from the experimental platform Terén (The Big Bang).
In 2022, she was included by Forbes magazine in the “30 under 30” list of thirty young Czech talents across all fields. She studied an unconventional combination: opera directing at HAMU and alternative theatre directing at DAMU. She has directed and coordinated dozens of projects, including The Case of Figaro, Opera Astronomical Clock, The Operatic Enema, La Traviata at Stalin’s and others. At the MDO, she directed the operas Titus (2023, with Jiří Havelka, presented at Flora in 2023), Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (2023) and Jenůfa (2024), which stirred up a lot of controversy.