Barrie Kosky Director

Barrie Kosky is the Intendant and Chefregisseur Meistersinger von Nürnberg was announced as of the Komische Oper Berlin. He is one of the Production of the Year by Opernwelt. In 2020 he most internationally sought-after stage directors was the recipient of a Sidney Myer Performing of today presenting productions all over the Arts Award, in recognition of his unique and world. influential contribution to the Australian Arts world. His work at the Komische Oper Berlin has included The Magic Flute (co-directed with 1927), New productions in 21/22 include Mahagonny for which has been seen by over a quarter of a million Komische Oper Berlin, The Cunning Little Vixen/ people in three continents, The Monteverdi Bayerischen Staatsoper Munich, Don Trilogy, Ball at the Savoy, Eugene Onegin, Les Giovanni/Wiener Staatsoper and Tosca/Dutch Contes d’Hoffmann, , La Belle Hélène, National Opera. Moses und Aron, La bohème, , Le Grand Macabre, West Side Story, Pelléas et Mélisande, Born in , Kosky was Artistic Director of Semele, The Bassarids, Die Perlen von Cleopatra, Gilgul Theatre Company 1990–97, Artistic Anatevka and Candide. At the end of his first Director of the 1996 and from season for 2012/13, the Komische Oper was 2001-2005 he was co-Artistic Director of the voted 'Opera House of the Year' by Opernwelt Vienna Schauspielhaus. magazine.

Barrie Kosky has directed opera productions for Valid for use until 1 September 2022 the Bayerische Staatsoper (Die Schweigsame For updated versions please contact

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Rosenkavalier), the Salzburg Festival (Orphée aux Enfers), Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Saul), Festival Aix en Provence (Falstaff, Coq D´Or), (/Bluebeard's Castle, Salome and ), Opera Zurich (La Fancuilla del West, The Stigmatized, and Boris Gudonov), Opéra National de Paris (Prince Igor) and Covent Garden (, Agrippina and Carmen). He has also presented his productions at the Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Liceu Barcelona, Vienna Staatsoper, Het National Opera Amsterdam, English National Opera, Oper Graz, Theater Basel, Aalto Theater Essen, Staatsoper Hannover, Deutsches Theater Berlin and Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and is a regular guest at the Edinburgh International Festival.

His awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production for Castor and Pollux (English National Opera), Best Director at the 2014 International Opera Awards, Best Opera House (Komische Oper Berlin) at the 2015 International Opera Awards, the 2015 Gold Iffland Medal from the Berliner Theater Club and the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Opera and Music Theatre for Saul (also nominated for a 2016 International Opera Award). In 2016 he was named Director of the Year by Opernwelt and in 2017 Kosky’s production of Saul won six out of seven categories at the , including Best Opera and Best Opera Direction. In 2018 Kosky’s production of Die

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