Sascha-Alexander Todtner
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Sascha-Alexander Todtner, born in 1989, studied genetics and MultiMediaArt in Salzburg. After graduating the started working as an assistant to Christof Loy in 2015, on productions including Peter Grimes at the Theater an der Wien, Khovanschina at De Nationale Opera, Wozzeck at Oper Frankfurt and Ariodante at the Salzburg and Salzburg Witsun festivals. He joined the Hamburg State Opera in 2017, where he worked with renowned directors including Willy Decker, Georges Delnon, Dmitri Tcherniakov, David Bösch and Herbert Fritsch and rehearsed many revivals. Guest engagements have taken him to the Vienna State Opera with Herbert Fritsch, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos with Georges Delnon and China with Johan Simons. He directed Paul Abraham's Märchen im Grand-Hotel at the Hamburg State Opera in 2020, which was followed by Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette in 2024. He's been working as a freelance assistant, rehearser of revivals and costume designer since 2025. During the 2025/26 he designed the costumes for Macbeth at Theater Basel and Belshazzar at the Komische Oper Berlin. This season he assisted on the new production Mazeppa and revives Christmas Eve at Oper Frankfurt.