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Kerck studied music theatre direction at the [[Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe]]<ref name="Schnakenberg" /> with Andrea Raabe and {{ill|Stephan Mösch|de}}, and attended [[master class]]es with [[Peter Konwitschny]] and [[Tatjana Gürbaca]].<ref name="Wiesbaden" /> She worked as assistant director to [[Johannes Schaaf]] at the [[War Memorial Opera House|San Francisco War Memorial Opera]] and the [[Aalto Theatre]] in Essen.<ref name="Wiesbaden" /> She directed Verdi's ''[[Aida]]'' at the Tiroler Festspiele in [[Erl]] in 2019.<ref name="Schnakenberg" />
She directed and created the scene for several performances at the [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden]], both plays such as [[Joshua Harmon (playwright)|Joshua Harmon]]'s ''Admissions''<ref name="WiesbadenFischer" /> and ''[[The Minutes (play)|The Minutes]]'' by Tracy Letts,<ref name="Hladek" /> and opera. She created Jörg Widmann's ''[[Babylon (opera)|Babylon]]'' for the opening performance of 2022 [[Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden]]<ref name="Uske 2022" /> and Dvořák's ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' in collaboration with soprano Olesya Golovneva.<ref name="Sternburg" /> Her work for the world premiere of [[Søren Nils Eichberg]]'s ''Oryx and Crake'' based on [[Oryx and Crake|the novel by Margaret Atwood]], was nominated for the [[International Opera Awards]].<ref name="operawire" /><ref name="Hochheim" /><ref name="Karlsruhe" /> She directed Puccini's ''[[Turandot]]'' and also created the scene for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele, conducted by [[Yoel Gamzou]].<ref name="Uske" /> When Puccini died in 1924, he had not yet set the happy ending of the libretto to music. Kerck decided to use none of the completions of Puccini's opera by others.<ref name="Zibulski preview" /> She framed the exotic story around Turandot by scenes in Puccini's library, where he composes in the beginning at a grand piano, served by a housekeeper. Dressed in a white suit throughout the performance, he is identified with the Prince in the story, and the housekeeper with Líu who is active on stage for most of the time. In the end, when Liú took her life and the music by Puccini ends, the Puccini on stage receives a kiss of death from Turandot and dies on the piano bench, to music from the beginning of a Requiem that he had composed in 1905.<ref name="Uske" /><ref name="Franke" /><ref name="Zibulski" />
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