Vasily Barkhatov
director
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Vasily Barkhatov made his triumphant debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2022/23 with this production of Tchaikovsky’s The Sorceress, returning in 2023/24 for Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre – both works had never been performed in Frankfurt before. He was born in Moscow. After graduating from the Russian Theatre Institute in 2005 he quickly became one of the most sought-after directors of his generation. Recent productions have included Turandot at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Eugene Onegin at Theater Bonn, Weinberg’s The Idiot at the Theater an der Wien, Simon Boccanegra at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and The Flying Dutchman at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein., where he returns this season for Dvořák's Rusalka. He directed Giordano’s Siberia at the Bregenz Festival, a production which was performed at Oper Bonn in 2022/23, and staged Mussorgsky‘s Khowanshchina, Prokofiev’s The Gambler and Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at Theater Basel, La fanciulla del West at Hungarian National Opera in Budapest, Eugene Onegin in Stockholm and Wiesbaden, Zimmermann’s Soldaten at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden and the world premiere of Reimann’s L’invisible at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. His production of Korngold’s The Dead City was seen at the Nowaja Opera Moscow, and revived in December 2022. He has also staged many works at the Mariinski Theatre in St Petersburg, including The Tales of Hoffmann, Verdi’s Otello, Berlioz‘ Benvenuto Cellini and Janáček’s Jenůfa, and worked at Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius and the Bolschoi in Moscow.