Keith Warner

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Keith Warner (born December 6, 1956 in London ) is a British opera director who is best known for his Wagner productions.

Life

Keith Warner says he has been enthusiastic about Wagner since he was 14 years old. From 1975 to 1978 he studied at the University of Bristol . He then worked as an actor and in alternative theater projects, where he taught drama as therapy and staged for independent theater troupes (see Fringe (theater) ). From 1981 to 1989 he worked as assistant director at the English National Opera , one of the two major opera houses in London, and since 1985 at the Scottish Opera , Glasgow ( Scotland ). In the late 1980s and early 1990s he worked as director and artistic director at the New Sussex Opera in southern England (based in Lewes , Brighton and Hove ) and in the USA as artistic director at the Omaha Opera ( Nebraska ).

In 1999 he was the director of Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival (in the 1999 to 2003 and 2005 program). Since then he has been a busy guest director for works by a wide variety of composers at a number of leading European opera houses. These include the Dresden Semperoper , the Frankfurt Opera and the Theater an der Wien . He staged Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen twice , at the New National Theater Tokyo ( NNTT ) and at the London Royal Opera (2004 to 2006). From 2011 he was supposed to be the artistic director of the Copenhagen Opera House , but canceled after a dispute over the budget .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c According to the English Wikipedia article on Keith Warner
  2. ↑ Report on www.classicalsource.com (Engl.)
  3. ^ Short biography on the homepage of the Bayreuth Festival according to information from the Saxon State Opera Dresden
  4. ↑ Report in the magazine Gramophone from January 24th, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Warner, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British opera director and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London