Elia Rediger – Artist, Director, Ritualist, Opera & Rock’n’Roll Realisateur. 
Born in Kinshasa and raised between Swiss farmland, Denver skies, and the backrooms of theatres, Elia Rediger moves through the world as a musician, singer, performer, and director who turns stages into utopian laboratories. Known as the sonor voice of the ArtPop band The bianca Story, he blends rock’n’roll energy, opera-scale emotions, political imagination, and ritualistic performance into a language entirely his own.
Elia’s works are border-crossings: sometimes concert, sometimes ceremony, sometimes collective uprising. With projects like GROUP50:50, Int. Int. Irrit, and Caravan of LUV, he creates spaces where music becomes political action, spiritual practice, and shared transformation. His style post-documentary, playful, radical echoes with former heroes while remaining unmistakably his signature.

A child singer at Theater Basel and accidentally mentored by Schlingensief’s chaos, Elia followed a path from media art studies to founding acknowledged Swiss ArtPop Band The bianca Story, releasing four albums, and touring worldwide and stepping boldly onto theatre stages. In 2012 he  ran for mayor of his hometown Basel with the “first ever democratic written song”, inventing a 104-author campaign anthem.
His creations wrestle with biography, utopia, and the beautiful friction between them. Highlights include the LSD-Oratorium Oh Albert with the Basel Sinfonietta, the Congo-Swiss music-theatre piece Oh Boyoma and the mining oratorio Herkules von Lubumbashi with choreographer Dorine Mokha, which helped lay the foundation for GROUP50:50, an artistic model for equitable intercontinental collaboration.

In Berlin he co-founded the musical supergroup Brigade Futur 3 (nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis), and since 2019 he directed the late-night format “Aus dem Hinterhalt: Macht der Künste” at the Deutsche Oper. His practice spans opera, film, performance, and political art; he collaborates internationally and has worked closely with director  Milo Rau on several projects from Burgtheater, Antigone in the Amazon to the awarded movie “The New Gospel” .
Today, Elia is developing  crossmedial theater & opera formats, a song cycle, a touring ritual series, large-scale community ceremonies, and the agnostic doubter s mass  OH FAITH (2026)  /(Schauspiel Leipzig) continuing his search for the point where music becomes movement, and performance becomes possibility.  Rediger is Tonali Award Winner (2021) and his highly acclaimed work is shown in many international festivals. Currently his collaboration continues with the Ibsen Award winning Director Lola Arias for THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA and is nominated for the Bertold Brecht Gastprofessur Leipzig in Dezember 2026.

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