Johannes Erath
Director
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The director Johannes Erath has enjoyed great success at Oper Frankfurt in recent seasons with works including this production of Verdi's Otello, Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Weber's Euryanthe, Eötvös' Angels in America, the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant, Szymanowski's King Roger and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He recently directed Trojahn's September Sonata and Bellini's La sonnambula at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Some of his productions, being revived this season, include Gounod's Faust at Cologne Opera, Le nozze di Figaro and The Tales of Hoffmann at the Semperoper in Dresden, La traviata at the Hamburg State Opera and a Puccini/Bartok double bill: The Coat / Blubeard's Castle an the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Future plans include Rossini's Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival, Kurtág's Fin de partie (Endgame) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Un ballo in maschera at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Kálmáns Die Csárdásfürstin at the Volksoper in Vienna and Handel's Alcina at Oper Frankfurt next summer. He has enjoyed close ties with Oper Graz for many years, where productions have included Korngold's Die tote Stadt /The Dead City – which won the Austrian Music Theatre Prize, Lulu, Don Giovanni, Elektra and Lohengrin (which was also seen at Norske Opera in Oslo). Johannes Erath was awarded the 2008 Götz Friedrich Prize for his production of Massenet's Cendrillon at Theater Bern. He played the violin in the Volksoper in Vienna's orchestra and in the Vienna Philharmonic's Orchester Akademie before his passion for direction was realised.