Andonis Foniadakis, aufgewachsen auf Kreta, begann seine Tanzausbildung bei Niki Papadaki, studierte dann an der National School of Dance Athen und erhielt vor seinem Abschluss das renommierte Maria-Callas-Stipendium, mit dem er sein Studium an der Rudra Béjart-Schule in Lausanne fortsetzte. Danach tanzte und choreografierte er weltweit an renommierten Häusern. 2003 gründete er seine eigene Tanzcompagnie «Apotosoma – Andonis Foniadakis» in Lyon.  2012 erhielt er in Italien den Danza Danza Award als bester Choreograf für die Kreation Les Noces beim Ballett Florenz und 2018 von der Critics Union of Music and Theatre in Griechenland den Preis für die beste Choreografie für sein Stück Galaxy. Von 2016 bis 2018 war er Künstlerischer Leiter des Griechischen Nationalballetts.

The German-born, Paris-based Greek fashion entrepreneur and costume designer Anastasios-Tassos Sofroniou began his career as a fashion editor in Athens before moving to London, where he collaborated with stylist and fashion director Isabella Blow (Vogue) and photographers such as Richard Avedon, David LaChapelle, and Mario Testino for publications including "The Face," "Interview US," "British GQ," "Elle," and "Sunday Times Style." In 2010, he founded his contemporary menswear brand "Conquistador," followed by the creative agency "StudioSTOUTT" in 2022. Since 2011, Anastasios Sofroniou has been teaching at leading universities for fashion design and fashion management, including Polimoda (Florence), ModArt, and EIML (Paris). Since 2011, he has also been designing costumes for contemporary dance and opera. In collaboration with choreographer Andonis Foniadakis, he has created numerous productions for renowned companies such as the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Maurice Béjart Ballet, the Geneva Ballet, the Hong Kong Ballet, Gauthier Dance, Cedar Lake NY, the Sydney Dance Company, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, the State Ballet Hanover, Tanz Kassel, the Opera Florence, and Rambert Dance.

Martin Gebhardt was a lighting designer and lighting master at John Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet. From 2002, he worked with Heinz Spoerli and the Zurich Ballet. Ballet productions of both companies took him to renowned theaters in Europe, Asia, and America. At the Zurich Opera House, he created the lighting design for productions by Jürgen Flimm, David Alden, Jan Philipp Gloger, Grischa Asagaroff, Matthias Hartmann, David Pountney, Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier, Damiano Michieletto, and Achim Freyer. At the Salzburg Festival, he designed the lighting for La bohème and a new version of Spoerli’s Death and the Maiden. Since the 2012/13 season, Martin Gebhardt has been head of lighting at the Zurich Opera House. Today, he maintains a close collaboration with choreographer Christian Spuck (including Winterreise, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Messa da Requiem, Anna Karenina, Woyzeck, The Sandman, Leonce and Lena, The Little Match Girl). He was also the lighting designer for choreographers Edward Clug (including Strings, Le Sacre du printemps, and Faust in Zurich), Alexei Ratmansky, Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, and Douglas Lee. He collaborated with Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock on Handel’s evening Sale and Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in Zurich, as well as on Lulu at the Hamburg State Opera, and with Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito at the Geneva Opera for Les Huguenots. In 2023, he designed the lighting for Spuck’s ballet Bovary at the Berlin State Ballet and in 2024 Rossini’s Tancredi at the Bregenz Festival. Additionally, he was the lighting designer for Atonement by Cathy Marston at the Zurich Opera House.

Michael Küster is from Germany. After studying German studies, art, and speech science at the University of Halle, he worked as a presenter, author, and speaker at various broadcasting stations in Germany. There, he hosted numerous classical music programs and live broadcasts of major concert events, including those from the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Semperoper Dresden, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
Since 2002, he has been a dramaturg at the Zurich Opera House, working with directors such as Matthias Hartmann, David Alden, Robert Carsen, Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier, Damiano Michieletto, David Pountney, Johannes Schaaf, and Graham Vick.
As dramaturg of Ballett Zürich, Michael Küster has collaborated since 2012 with Cathy Marston, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Kim Brandstrup, Edward Clug, Alexei Ratmansky, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, and Hans van Manen. Together with Christian Spuck, he worked on productions including «Winterreise» («Prix Benois de la Danse»), «Romeo and Juliet», «Messa da Requiem», and «The Sleeping Beauty».
At La Scala in Milan, Michael Küster was dramaturg for Matthias Hartmann’s opera productions of «Der Freischütz», «Idomeneo», and «The Queen of Spades».