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. While Konrad Kuhn was a member of Oper Frankfurt, from 2015 - 2026, he worked on productions 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, Parsifal, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Dialogue des Carmélites, Tancredi and the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno - he returns as a guest in the 2026/27 season for the world premiere of her Battaglia, the women from Palermo and a new production of Chausson's Le roi Arthus. He was also in charge of the Ensemble Modern's Happy New Ears' series and teaches at universities in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main.