Biography
Carlos Wagner was born and brought up in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating with a diploma.Most recent projects include Franz Schmidt´s Notre Dame for the St. Gallen Festspiele, Händel´s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno for Theater Mainz, Il trittico at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Cecilia Valdés at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Götterdämmerung at Ópera de Oviedo, Handel’s Lotario for the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen and Theater Bern, Siegfried at Ópera de Oviedo, Angels in Amerika (Peter Eötvös) for Theater Münster, Julie & Jean for Neue Oper Wien. Other production include revivals of Carmen in Bonn and Oviedo and of Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe at Vlaamse Opera, Il Trovatore at the Alden Biesen Summer Opera Festival, Lohengrin at the National Korean Opera in Seoul, Offenbach’s Geneviève de Brabant at the Opéra de Montpellier and the Opéra national de Lorraine, Der Freischütz at Theater Münster as well as, Powder her Face by Thomas Adés for the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Verdi’s Il Due Foscari for the Festspiele St Gallen, Massenet’s Werther for the Aalto-Theater Essen, Wagner’s Lohengrin for the theatres in Rennes and Rouen, Giorgio Battistelli’s Il Medico dei pazzi for the Opéra national de Lorraine and Verdi’s Macbeth, as well as Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer for Theater Kiel.
Earlier engagements include Powder her face for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Britten’s Curlew River and The Prodigal Son for the OsterKlang-Festival in Vienna, Le duc d’Albe for De Vlaamse Opera and for Ópera de Oviedo, Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust for Theater St. Gallen, Schönberg’s Die glückliche Hand for Oper Leipzig, Un Ballo in Maschera for the Opéra national de Bordeaux, Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia for De Vlaamse Opera, Verdi’s Luisa Miller for Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Philip Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher for Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Bizet’s Carmen for Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, Opéra national de Lorraine and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Offenbach’s La Vie parisienne and Zemlinksy’s Eine Florentinische Tragödie for the Opéra national de Lorraine, Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress for Angers Nantes Opéra, The Lighthouse, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre and Tan Dun’s Tea a Mirror of Soul for Neue Oper Wien, for which he also presented a re-working of Monteverdi’s Orfeo by Christoph Cech. He has directed the world premieres of Juana, by E. Palomar, for Theater Halle and Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona as part of the Festival de Butxaca, and Phantom Palace by Hilda Paredes for the Festival of Arts and Ideas Connecticut and Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart. Carlos Wagner was also commissioned to devise and direct Had I a Song, a retrospective on the life of Ivor Gurney for Muziektheater Transparant Antwerp and Orpheus Frequency and Syrinx for ENO Studio London.
Upcoming productions include Jörg Widmanns´ Das Gesicht im Spiegel for Neue Oper Wien, Tchaikosky´s Iolanta for Oper Kiel as well as Ottone for the Internationalen Händel-Festspiele in Karlsruhe.
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