Claus Guth

Director Claus Guth works at the world's most important opera houses and festivals. His Frankfurt productions of Daphne and Pelléas et Mélisande both won the DER FAUST theater prize. In 2022, he realized Die Sache Makropulos at the Berlin State Opera and Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas at the Bavarian State Opera as well as the world premiere of Il Viaggio, Dante by Pascal Dusapin at the festival in Aix-en-Provence. Other recent world premieres include Heart Chamber by Chaya Czernowin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Violetter Schnee by Beat Furrer at the Staatsoper Berlin. He has also staged Handel's Orlando at the Theater an der Wien, Salome at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Saul at the Theater an der Wien, La Bohème and Rigoletto at the Opéra national de Paris, Jephtha in Amsterdam and Paris, La clemenza di Tito at the Glyndebourne Festival and Die Frau ohne Schatten (co-production of La Scala Milan and London's Royal Opera House) at the Staatsoper Berlin. 

Other stages in his career include the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, where he worked on a Da Ponte cycle that was also widely performed elsewhere, the Hamburg State Opera, the Zurich Opera House and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Important recent works include Semele at the Bavarian State Opera and Don Carlo at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as well as Doppelgänger, a staged interpretation of Schubert's Schwanengesang with Jonas Kaufmann, at Armory Hall in New York. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2010 with Tannhäuser.
Claus Guth studied philosophy, German and theater studies in Munich as well as theater and opera directing at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding.