1. Claus Guth was born on 1964 and is a German theatre director, focused on opera.
19 Facts About Claus Guth
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Claus Guth has directed operas at major houses and festivals, including world premieres such as works of the Munich Biennale, and Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival in 1999.
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Claus Guth has received two Faust awards, for Daphne by Richard Strauss in 2010, and for Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, both at the Oper Frankfurt.
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Claus Guth has staged several world premieres, some in the context of the Munich Biennale, such as Hanna Kulenty's The Mother of Black Winged Dreams in 1996, Chaya Czernowin's Pnima.
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Claus Guth staged the world premiere of Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival in 1999, which is regarded as his international break-through.
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Claus Guth went on to direct the premieres of Klaus Huber's Schwarzerde at the Theater Basel in 2001, of Unsichtbar Land with music by Helmut Oehring and Henry Purcell there in 2006.
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Claus Guth directed the world premieres of Peter Ruzicka's Celan at the Semperoper in Dresden in 2001, and of Avet Terterian's The Earthquake in Chile at the Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz in 2020.
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Claus Guth directed the world premieres of Beat Furrer's Violetter Schnee at the Staatsoper Berlin, and of Czernowin's Heart Chamber at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, both in 2019.
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Claus Guth directed Verdi's La traviata at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Otello at the Opernhaus Dortmund, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Staatstheater Nurnberg.
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Claus Guth directed at the Theater Basel Wagner's Tannhauser, Weber's Der Freischutz in 2003, and Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia in 2004 which was presented in Dusseldorf and Munich.
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Claus Guth first worked at the Bavarian State Opera in Verdi's Luisa Miller in 2007.
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Claus Guth has worked regularly for the Salzburg Festival since the Berio premiere in 1999.
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Claus Guth directed Don Giovanni in 2008 and Cosi fan tutte in 2009.
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In 2003, Claus Guth staged Wagner's Der fliegende Hollander at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Claus Guth staged all works of the Bayreuth canon: in 2007 Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg at the Semperoper, from 2008 to 2010 Der Ring des Nibelungen with Hamburg's Generalmusikdirektor Simone Young, in 2010 Tannhauser at the Vienna State Opera; in 2011 Parsifal in a production of the Liceu in Barcelona with the Opernhaus Zurich, conducted by Daniele Gatti, and finally Lohengrin for the inaugurazione of the new season at la Scala in Milan on 7 December 2012, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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Claus Guth staged Daphne by Richard Strauss at the Oper Frankfurt in 2010, which earned him the award Der Faust.
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Claus Guth directed Die Frau ohne Schatten at la Scala in 2012, and in 2014 at the Royal Opera House in London conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
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Claus Guth began a cycle of Monteverdi's operas in 2011 with L'Orfeo, continued in 2012 with Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and concluded in 2015 with L'incoronazione di Poppea.
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In November 2012, Claus Guth staged Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande at the Oper Frankfurt, which earned him the Faust award again.