Michael Röger
was born in Leipzig.
Trained at the Leipzig Opera, he has been working there since 1982. In 1995, he became head of lighting at the Leipzig Opera.
He had a particularly close working relationship with Uwe Scholz since 1992. Michael Röger collaborated with Uwe Scholz to create the lighting design for all of the Leipzig Ballet's productions.
Other productions with, among others:
Andreas Frisay Kali Son, Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Alfred Kirchner, John Dew, Willy Decker, Jerome Savary, Ermano Olmi, Immo Karaman, Werner Schroeter, Aron Sthiel, Michiel Dijkema, Silvana and Mario Schröder, Rosamund Gilmore, Anthony Pilavachi, Balázs Kovalik, and Francisco Negrin.
In the field of jazz, productions with Yosuke Yamaschita, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Bert Noglik.
Guest contracts took Michael to opera houses in Antwerp/Ghent, Zurich, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Toulouse, Dresden, Milan, Karlsruhe, Koblenz, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Ljubljana, Vilnius, Bratislava, Prague, Mulhouse, and Beijing, among others.