Konrad Kuhn
Dramaturge
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Konrad Kuhn studied comparative literature and musicology in Berlin. He started working in drama, at theatres including the Burgtheater in Vienna, before working predominantly as an opera dramaturge in 1999, at the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and Zurich Opera. Places where he has spent time as a guest dramaturge have included the Theater an der Wien, the Vienna State Opera, Opéra national de Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, State Opera in Berlin, the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, Festival d'Automne in Paris, in Düsseldorf, Bologna, Sao Paulo and Tallinn. He works regularly with the directors Claus Guth, Tobias Kratzer and Robert Wilson. Konrad Kuhn joined Oper Frankfurt in 2015/16, since when new productions he has worked on have included Stiffelio, Flotow's Martha, Meyerbeer's L’Africaine, Rudi Stephan's Die ersten Menschen, Madama Butterfly, Elektra, the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno and, most recently, Offenbach's The Bandits and Fortner's Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in his Garden. During the 2024/25 season projects include Parsifal, directed by Brigitte Fassbaender. He's also in charge of the Ensemble Modern's Happy New Ears' series and teaches at universities in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main.