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 2014. 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.

2023-08-01

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theaterKIEL* | KROL ROGER

Staatstheater Augsburg | PETER GRIMES

Oper Graz | SWANDA, DER DUDELSACKPFEIFFER

theaterKIEL* | DIE LIEBE ZU DEN DREI ORANGEN

Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar | CALIGULA

Theater Osnabrück | GUERCŒUR

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