Australian is opera director of the year
mainThe influential Opernwelt magazine has published its annual awards for 2016.
Director of the year: Barrie Kosky (Komische Oper, Berlin)
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Singer: Christian Gerhaher
Orchestra: Bavarian Opera
Chorus: Dutch National Opera
World premiere: Georg Friedrich Haas, ‘Koma’ at Darmstadt
Opera house of the year: Stuttgart
More here.
His Glyndebourne ‘Saul’ is here at the Adeliade Festival next year and is already nearly sold out. Will be great to have him back in the homeland for a visit.
I thought he was a modernist Regietheater expert. Doing Haas points already into that direction.