Kirill Serebrennikov
Dutch National Opera - Boris Godunov
Russian-Ukrainian director Kirill Serebrennikov convincingly brings Boris Godunov into the present. ... A multifaceted spectacle that pulls out all the stops.
Theaterkrant, Thea Derks (June 2025)
Edinburgh International Festival - Le nozze di Figaro
Serebrennikov is a relentlessly questioning performer who is never content to leave the works of the past where they are. ... but it creates a sensational effect.
The Telegraph (August 2024)Season 25/26 and Highlights
Berlin State Ballet
Demutsky - Nureyev
PREMIERE Mar 21
OSTERFESTSPIELE SALZBURG
Wagner - Rheingold
PREMIERE Mar 27
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OSTERFESTSPIELE SALZBURG
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC WITH KIRILL PETRENKO
Wagner - Rheingold
PREMIERE Mar 27
THE NATIONAL OPERA AMSTERDAM
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro
PREMIERE May 8
Biography
Kirill Serebrennikov is one of the most internationally sought-after directors of opera, drama, film and ballet.
In the 2025/26 season, he will open the new Ring cycle at the Salzburg Easter Festival with Rheingold under the musical direction of Kirill Petrenko. At the Staatsballett Berlin, his celebrated production of Nureyev, for which he is responsible for directing, libretto and stage design, will be shown.
In addition to his theater and opera work, Serebrennikov has also received numerous international awards as a filmmaker.
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Kirill Serebrennikov, born in Rostov-on-Don, initially studied physics and simultaneously began his autodidact career as a theater, opera, and film director, as well as a costume designer. He quickly attracted international attention with productions such as Salome (Stuttgart Opera), Il Barbiere di Siviglia ( Komische Oper Berlin ) and the Orff project Mysterion with Teodor Currentzis.
In the 2024/25 season, he directed Don Carlo at the Vienna State Opera, Life with an Idiot (Schnittke) at the Zurich Opera, Don Giovanni at the Komische Oper Berlin and Boris Godunov at the De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. He concluded the season with the play production The Snowstorm by Vladimir Sorokin at the Salzburg Festival.
His highly acclaimed operatic works include Falstaff at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Le coq d'or at the Bolshoi in Moscow, American Lulu at the Vienna Festival, Così fan tutte (Zurich), Nabucco (Hamburg), Parsifal (Vienna State Opera), Die Nase (Bavarian State Opera), Der Freischütz (Amsterdam), and the current Mozart-Da Ponte cycle at the Komische Oper Berlin. Lohengrin is planned for 2026 at the Opéra de Paris.
As a filmmaker, he has received awards for The Student in Cannes, among others. Other films such as Playing the Victim, The Swallow, Mysteries of the Storm and The Diary of a Murderer have been shown at international festivals and have won numerous awards.
Serebrennikov's theater works include both classics by Russian authors and works by Shakespeare, Brecht and Martin McDonagh. His production of Plastilin by Wassilij Sigarew was recorded by arte and shown internationally.
He was the founder of the “Studio Seven” platform and artistic director of the legendary Gogol Center in Moscow (2012–2021), a cross-genre theater laboratory. There, among other things, Dead Souls, the musical adaptation of Spring Awakening (after Duncan Sheik) and Machine Müller (with the Goethe-Institut) were created. For his work on the ballet Nureyev at the Bolshoi Theater and Little Tragedies by Pushkin, he received the Golden Mask in 2019, the highest Russian theater award.
2025/26
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