David Hermann
Director
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David Hermann won the 2023 DER FAUST German Theatre Prize for operatic direction. Now he’s back at Oper Frankfurt, where this German-French director has worked regularly since 2004/05 staging works including a Schönberg evening Warten auf heute/Waiting for Today, Janáček’s From the House of the Dead - revival opens March 7! – a wonderful Křenek trilogy (International Opera Awards »Rediscovery 2018«) L’Orfeo, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, a Ravel/de Falla L’heure espagnole / La vida breve double bill and Charpentier’s Médée, for Magnard’s Guercœur. He and set designer Jo Schramm have also staged Lully‘s Armide at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, Das Rheingold at Baden‘s Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Inamori’sWe, of Glass for the Munich Biennale and Deutsche Oper Berlin, the world premiere ofAnno Schreier's Tis Pity she’s a Whore at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Lohengrin and Parsifal at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg, Mahler’s Lied von der Erde / Jelinek’s King Bees and Die Frau ohne Schatten at Stuttgart State Opera, Falstaff at the Opéra national de Montpellier, Così fan tutte at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg and Tannhäuser at the Opéra de Lyon. Recent productions have included the world premieres of Gordon Kampe‘s Dogville at the Aalto Theater Essen and Ronchetti’s Der Doppelgänger at the Schwetzingen Festival. He has also worked at places including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper in Dresden, the Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Opéra de Lausanne, Theater Basel, Zurich Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Ruhrtriennale and Salzburg festivals. He makes his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich later this season with Don Giovanni. He studied at the »Hanns Eisler« University for Music in Berlin and began his career assisting Hans Neuenfels.