Dustin Klein
choreographer
© Nicholas Mackay
Dustin Klein is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Handel's Ottone. He recently worked on Lucia di Lammermoor and Aida at the Hamburg State Opera and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. He's been choreographing works at leading theatres and opera houses since 2012, including the Bavarian State Ballet and Staatsoper (Les Vêpres siciliennes, Idomeneo and Pelléas et Mélisande), the Salzburg Festival, opera houses in Dijon, Paris and Dallas, the Glyndebourne Festival, National Theatre in Prague and, every year from 2017 - 2022, for the Origen Festival Cultural (Switzerland). His artistry is defined by interdisciplinary exchange, which is reflected in his working regularly with graphic designers, film makers and computer animators. His work has won him many awards (including the audience prize at the Bayerische Theatertage and production prize at the International Choreography Competition). Earlier in his career he worked as a dancer at the Ballet am Rhein in Düsseldorf from 2006 and as a soloist at the Bavarian State Ballet from 2008 - 2021, where he danced roles in productions choreographed by people including Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, John Neumeier, Christopher Wheeldon and Richard Siegal zusehen. He studied at the Royal Ballet School (2003 - 2006) and Trinity College in London.