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Claus Guth Director
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Biography
Born in Frankfurt, Claus Guth studied Philosophy, German and Theatre Studies at the University of Munich. In 1999 he directed the world premiere of Luciano Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival, followed by Iphigénie en Tauride, Zaide and the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy. He has made a name for himself in Wagner's operas (Lohengrin at La Scala, Tannhäuser at the Vienna State Opera, Tristan und Isolde at the Zurich Opera House, the Tetralogy at the Hamburg State Opera).
Recent productions include the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin's Heart Chamber at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in 2019, the revival of Don Giovanni in Madrid in 2020, Salome at the Bolshoi in Moscow, Dialogues des carmélites at the Frankfurt Opera and Jenůfa (Olivier Award for Best Lyric Performance) at the Royal Opera House in London in 2021, The Makropoulos Affair at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, The Marriage of Figaro in Madrid, Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the world premiere of Il Viaggio, Dante by Pascal Dusapin at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Elektra at the Frankfurt Opera and Turandot at the Vienna State Opera in 2022, Sémélé at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Doppelgänger at the Park Avenue Armory in New York in 2023, La Khovantchina at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and Samson at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2024. He has twice won the Faust Prize and the Oper! Prize in 2023.
At the Opéra national de Paris: Rigoletto, 2016; Lohengrin, 2017; La Bohème, 2017; Jephtha, 2018; Bérénice, 2018; Don Giovanni, 2023.
