Dirk Schmeding

Vita

Dirk Schmeding, born in 1983, studied art and literature in Braunschweig before turning to drama. After various assistantships, in particular at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Salzburg Festival, Schmeding began work as a music drama director in 2013. His stagings took him to such venues as the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Luzerner Theater, Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, zur Oper Frankfurt, an die Oper Graz, zur Staatsoper Hannover, an das Staatstheater Augsburg, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Theater an der Wien, Theater Kiel, Theater St. Gallen and the SWR Festival in Schwetzingen.

 

Important stagings of recent seasons include the first German performance of Dai Fujikura’s Solaris at the Staatstheater in Augsburg, Jaromír Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper at the Graz Opera, and two highly regarded productions comprising Detlev Glanert’s Caligula at the Nationaltheater in Weimar and Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s The Passenger at the Braunschweig Staatstheater. His production of the German first performance of Albéric Magnard’s Guercoeur at Theater Osnabrück, unanimously praised by press and public alike, was selected as “Rediscovery of the Year” in the Opernwelt critics’ poll and nominated for the 2020 International Opera Awards.

 

2024-08-15

Media

 
Oper Graz | VENUS IN SEIDE
 
theaterKIEL* | KROL ROGER
Staatstheater Augsburg | PETER GRIMES
Luzerner Theater | HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
Oper Graz | SWANDA, DER DUDELSACKPFEIFFER
theaterKIEL* | DIE LIEBE ZU DEN DREI ORANGEN
Staatstheater Darmstadt | LES CONTES D´HOFFMANN
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar | CALIGULA
 
Theater Osnabrück | GUERCŒUR

Production

23/05/2025
Gaetano Donizetti: L´ELISIR D´AMORE Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
29/11/2024
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE Landestheater Detmold
25/10/2024
Ruggero Leoncavallo: PAGLIACCI Staatsoper Hannover
18/05/2024 Giacomo Puccini: IL TRITTICO Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
16/03/2024
Robert Stolz: VENUS IN SEIDE Oper Graz
11/11/2023
Engelbert Humperdinck: HÄNSEL UND GRETEL Luzerner Theater
30/09/2023 Jacques Offenbach: LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Staatstheater Darmstadt
05/06/2023 Erich Wolfgang Korngold: DIE STUMME SERENADE Musiktheater an der Wien
25/02/2023
Karol Szymanowski: KÖNIG ROGER Oper Kiel
03/12/2022
Franz Lehár: CLOCLO Staatstheater Braunschweig
29/05/2022 Benjamin Britten: PETER GRIMES Staatstheater Augsburg
12/02/2022 Detlev Glanert: CALIGULA Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
18/12/2021 Jaromir Weinberger: SCHWANDA THE BAGPIPER Oper Graz
18/09/2021 Sergej Prokofiev: THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES OperKiel
07/07/2021 Johann Strauss II: THE BAT Dutch National Opera Academy
05/03/2021 Antonin Dvorak: RUSALKA (Streaming-Premiere) Staatstheater Braunschweig
14/03/2020 Richard Wagner: DAS RHEINGOLD (canceled) Mainfranken Theater Würzburg
29/09/2019 Richard Strauss: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Staatstheater Augsburg
15/06/2019 Albéric Magnard: GUERCOEUR Theater Osnabrück
06/04/2019 Mieczyslaw Weinberg: DIE PASSAGIERIN Staatstheater Braunschweig
02/02/2019 Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow / Igor Strawinsky: DER UNSTERBLICHE KASCHTSCHEI / DIE NACHTIGALL Theater St. Gallen
18/05/2018 Dai Fujikura: SOLARIS (German premiere) Staatstheater Augsburg
27/01/2018 Giuseppe Verdi: SIMON BOCCANEGRA Staatstheater Darmstadt
04/03/2017 Leos Janácek: JENUFA Staatstheater Darmstadt
15/11/2015 Leos Janácek: THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN Staatstheater Darmstadt

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