Jens-Daniel Herzog
Director
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The director Jens-Daniel Herzog is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he directed Wagner's Lohengrin and Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes, for this new production of Henze's The Prince of Homburg. He took up the posts of Intendant and Opera Director at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg in 2018/19, where productions he has directed included Le nozze di Figaro, Mathis der Maler, the world premiere of Schreier's Turing, Die Frau ohne Schatten, The Rape of Lucretia, L’Orfeo, La Calisto, Don Carlo, Così fan tutte, Turnage's Anna Nicole and Prokofiev'sWar and Peace. This season he directs a new Threepenny Opera there. While Intendant of Oper Dortmund (2011 - 2018) his productions included Arabella, Otello and Nabucco. Other trailblazing productions were staged at Zurich Opera: Schreker's Der ferne Klang, Pfitzner's Palestrina, The Pearlfishers , Intermezzo, Königskinder, Orlando, Pique Dame and Tannhäuser. He has also worked at the Staatstheater in Mainz, Theater Bonn, the Hamburg and Dresden state operas, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater an der Wien, the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, the Korean National Theatre in Seoul, the Salzburg and Schwetzingen festivals and the Festwochen in Innsbruck. After studying Philosophy he started his career assisting and rehearsing at the Kammerspiel in Munich, where he staged many world premieres. Other engagements have taken him to the Schauspielhaus in Zürich, the Thalia Teatre in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna and Schauspiel Frankfurt. He was Schauspiel Director at the National Theatre in Mannheim from 2000 - 2006, where he staged works including Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.