Art director of the workshop, professor, People’s Artist of Russia, art director of Helikon-Opera Theatre.
Officer of the French Ordre des Palmes académiques, recipient of the Maltese cross and the title of the Count of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, knight of the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana.
Dmitriy Bertman graduated from GITIS (professor’s G. Ansimov workshop, 1989). In 1990 He created Helikon-Opera Moscow Music Theatre.
He is the director of around 100 performances in Helikon-Opera and other Russian and foreign theatres, including those in Petersburg, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, Wexford (Ireland), Manheim, Ludwigsburg (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Riga (Latvia), Paris, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Evian, Dijon (France), Toronto (Canada), Rome, Ravenna (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Santander, Merida, Peralada (Spain), Istanbul (Turkey), Tallinn (Estonia) and others.
Since 1994 Dmitry Bertman has been teaching at the Bern Opera Studio (Switzerland).
Apart from working at Helikon-Opera, Dmitry Bertman is a sought-after opera director all over the world. Among his recent productions are The Naked King by L. Lombardi at the Rome Opera (2009), The Mermaid by A. Dvořák at the Canadian Opera (Toronto, 2009), The Love for Three Oranges at the Estonia Theater (Tallinn). The Swedish Royal Opera invited Dmitry Bertman to stage all the operas of P. Tchaikovsky (so far two performances have been made: Eugene Onegin in 2005 and The Queen of Spades in 2009). In 2011, Dmitry Bertman staged G. Verdi’s opera Othello on the stage of the Norrland Opera Theater (Umeå, Sweden). In 2016, the director staged The Rake’s Progress by I. Stravinsky on the stage of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, N. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf, Germany), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich at the stage of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo (Brazil).