Claus Guth

The director Claus Guth works at the most important opera houses and festivals around the world. His productions of Daphne and Pelléas et Mélisande in Frankfurt each won the theater prize DER FAUST. In 2022, he staged Die Sache Makropulos at the Berlin State Opera and Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas at the Bavarian State Opera, as well as the world premiere of Il Viaggio, Dante by Pascal Dusapin at the festival in Aix-en-Provence. Other recent premieres include Heart Chamber by Chaya Czernowin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Violetter Schnee by Beat Furrer at the Berlin State Opera. He also directed Handel's Orlando at the Theater an der Wien, Salome at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, as well as Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Saul at the Theater an der Wien, La Bohème and Rigoletto at the Opéra national de Paris, Jephtha in Amsterdam and Paris, La clemenza di Tito at the Glyndebourne Festival, and Die Frau ohne Schatten (a co-production between La Scala in Milan and the Royal Opera House in London) at the Berlin State Opera. Other notable stops in his career include the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, where he created a frequently performed Da Ponte cycle, as well as the Hamburg State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Significant recent works include Semele at the Bavarian State Opera and Don Carlo at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as well as Doppelgänger, a staged interpretation of Schubert's Schwanengesang with Jonas Kaufmann, at the Armory Hall in New York. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2010 with Tannhäuser. Claus Guth studied philosophy, German studies, and theater studies in Munich, as well as theater and opera directing at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding.