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
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Biography
Keith Warner is considered a director with a deep psychological sense and a strong visual signature, who unlocks both the repertoire and rarely performed works with great narrative power. Warner has directed at houses such as the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera London, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, in San Francisco, Tokyo, and at the Bayreuth Festival.
In the 2025/26 season he returns to the Oper Frankfurt Most recently, he received a great response with the celebrated rediscovery of Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.
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In past seasons, Warner has staged Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Vienna State Opera, Puccini's Tosca at the Santa Fe Opera, as well as Orff's Die Kluge and Weill's Der Zar lassen sich Fotografieren in Frankfurt. Oper Frankfurt He had already been involved in a 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 Hansel and Gretel .
Warner also collaborated extensively with the Theater an der Wien. There, he directed productions including Bloch's Macbeth , Mozart's Don Giovanni , Schulhoff's Flammen , Haydn's Orlando Paladino , Janácek'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 in particular Wozzeck (Berg), for which he was awarded the Olivier Award in 2003.
He made his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2018 with Barber's Vanessa. His work has also taken him to houses in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Brussels, Dresden, Hamburg, Warsaw, Strasbourg, Tokyo, San Francisco, Karlsruhe, Halle, as well as to festivals in Bayreuth, Savonlinna, and Bregenz. In Bregenz, he was responsible for, among other things, the new production of Andrea Chénier (Giordano) and the world premiere of André Tchaikowsky's The Merchant of Venice (2013).
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