Vasily Barkhatov
director
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Vasily Barkhatov is directing his first opera at Oper Frankfurt – which should have been György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in 2020 - Tchaikovsky’s The Sorceress, which has never been seen in Frankfurt before. He is one of the most sought-after directors of his generation. He was born in Moscow and studied stage direction at Russia’s Institute for Theatre, graduating in 2005. Plans this season include Der Idiot / The Idiot (Weinberg) at the Theater an der Wien and Simon Boccanegra at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He enjoyed great success recently with Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and Giordano’s Siberia at last summer’s Bregenz Festival, which can be seen at Oper Bonn later this season. He has directed Mussorgsky’s Khowanshchina, Prokofiev’s The Gambler and Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at Theater Basel, Puccini’s La fanciulla del West at the Erkel Theater in Budapest, Eugene Onegin in Stockholm and Wiesbaden, Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten at Wiesbaden’s International May Festival and Reimann’s L’Invisible at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. His production of Korngold‘s Die Tote Stadt / The Dead City will be revived at New Opera Moscow this December. He has also directed many productions for the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, including Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Verdi’s Otello, Berlioz‘ Benvenuto Cellini and Janáček’s Jenůfa, Eugene Onegin at Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius, and Die Fledermaus at the Bolschoi in Moscow. He was artistic director of the Mikhailowski Theater in St Petersburg in 2013/14, where new productions included Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman.