Keith Warner

Keith Warner is one of the most important directors of our time. In the last couple of years he has staged at opera houses in Berlin, Vienna, London, Copenhagen, Brussels, Frankfurt, Dresden, Hamburg, Warsaw, Strasbourg, Tokio, San Francisco, Karlsruhe among others. His work also led him to major festivals as Bayreuth, Savonlinna and Bregenz, where he staged the new production of Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier in 2011 as well as the world premiere of Tchaikowsky’s Der Kaufmann von Venedig in summer 2013.

Keith Warner is closely connected to the Oper Frankfurt where he has staged Britten’s Death in Venice, Rossini’s La cenerentola, Dallapiccola’s Volo di notte/Il prigioniero, Reimann’s Lear, Ade’s Tempest, Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Murder in the Cathedral, Verdi’s Falstaff and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. He also works closely with the Theater an der Wien, where he staged Bloch’s Macbeth, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Schulhoff’s Flammen, Haydn’s Orlando Paladino, Janácek’s Katja Kabanová, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and most recently Weill’s Dreigroschenoper and the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Egmont.

He celebrated several successes at the Royal Opera House. Among many other productions such as Rossi's Orfeo and Verdi's Otello, his staging of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House London was highly celebrated and was awarded the Olivier Award as “best opera production 2003“. The production had its revival in 2013. 

In 2018, he made his debut with Barber's Vanessa at the Glyndebourne Festival. His interpretations of Elektra included productions at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe and in San Francisco. At Den Norske Opera he recently staged Jenufa and at the Halle Opera Reimann's Traumspiel.

In the 2022/23 season, he staged Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Vienna State Opera, Orff's Die Kluge/Weill's Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren at the Frankfurt Opera, and Tosca at the Santa Fe Opera.

2023/24

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