HIGHLIGHTS
Collaboration with:
DIE STUMME SERENADE (PREMIERE) – THEATER AN DER WIEN
BR Klassik by Jörn Florian Fuchs
PETER GRIMES (PREMIERE) – STAATSTHEATER AUGSBURG
a3kultur by Renate Baumille
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 |