Keith Warner
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe - The Wreckers
Smyth's moving late-romantic music ... meets an atmospheric stage design with strong images and equally strong character development under the direction of Keith Warner.
Baden Latest News (September 30, 2024)Vienna State Opera - The Mastersingers
With this fascinating and moving moment, Keith Warner elevates the final speech to a much higher level of art as a universal human cultural achievement.
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
MALMÖ OPERA
MORAVEC - THE SHINING
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Biography
Keith Warner is considered a director with profound psychological insight and a strong visual style, who brings both the standard repertoire and rarely performed works to life with great narrative power. Warner has directed at houses such as the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, in San Francisco, Tokyo, and at the Bayreuth Festival.
Keith Warner opens the 2026/27 season with the Scandinavian premiere of Paul Moravec's opera The Shining at Malmö Opera. Another highlight is his new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Under the musical direction of Alexander Soddy and with a top-class cast, he tackles one of the most important works in the operatic repertoire.
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In recent seasons, Warner garnered significant acclaim with the celebrated rediscovery of Ethel Smyth's * The Wreckers* at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. He has also directed *Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg* at the Vienna State Opera, Puccini's * Tosca* at the Santa Fe Opera, and Mussorgsky's * Boris Godunov*, Orff's * Die Kluge , and Weill's * Der Zar lässt sich photographieren * in Frankfurt. With the Oper Frankfurt He had previously been associated with a large number of influential productions, including Britten's Death in Venice , Rossini's La Cenerentola , Dallapiccola's Volo di notte / Il prigioniero , Reimann's Lear , Adès' The Tempest , Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral , Verdi's Falstaff and Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel.
Warner also collaborated extensively with the Theater an der Wien. There he directed, among other works, Bloch's Macbeth , Mozart's Don Giovanni , Schulhoff's Flammen , Haydn's Orlando Paladino , Janáček's Katja Kabanová , Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia , Hindemith's Mathis der Maler , Weill's Threepenny Opera , Christian Jost's Egmont (world premiere), and most recently , Giulio Cesare.
At the Royal Opera London he achieved celebrated productions of Orfeo (Rossi), Otello (Verdi) and especially Wozzeck (Berg), for which he was awarded the Olivier Award in 2003.
He made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2018 with Barber's Vanessa . His work has also taken him to theaters in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Brussels, Dresden, Hamburg, Warsaw, Strasbourg, Tokyo, San Francisco, Karlsruhe, Halle, as well as to the festivals in Bayreuth, Savonlinna, and Bregenz. In Bregenz, he was responsible for, among other things, the new production of Andrea Chénier 's Giordano and the world premiere of André Tchaikovsky's The Merchant of Venice (2013).
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