Carlos Wagner

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Carlos Wagner was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After completing his studies in acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, he worked as an actor on both stage and screen. A masterclass with Ruth Berghaus in Berlin led to the decision to dedicate himself entirely to directing opera and theatre.

Last season, Carlos Wagner staged a new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at Oper Köln, co-produced with Teatro Real Madrid, where it will be presented in 2026/27. He also directed Verdi’s Rigoletto at Theater Regensburg. More recent highlights include Sweeney Todd at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, Handel’s Rodelinda at Oper Kiel, and the world premiere of La bella Susona by Alberto Carretero, which debuted at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla and was later revived at Opera Tenerife.

His diverse portfolio also includes Brechts Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, MacbethDer fliegende Holländer and Iolanta, all at Theater Kiel, Jörg Widmann’s Das Gesicht im Spiegel at Neue Oper Wien, Ottone at the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe, Notre Dame by Franz Schmidt and I due Foscari for the St. Gallen Festspiele, Lohengrin at the National Korean Opera in Seoul, in Rennes and Rouen, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at Theater Mainz, Puccini’s Il trittico at Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Carmen at Oper Bonn and Ópera de Oviedo and Cecilia Valdés at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. Carlos Wagner also directed Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès at Teatro Arriaga Bilbao, Madama Butterfly at Stadttheater Klagenfurt,  Werther at Aalto-Theater Essen, Götterdämmerung and Siegfried for Ópera de Oviedo, Lotario for both the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen and Theater Bern, Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe at Vlaamse Opera, Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America at Theater Münster and Geneviève de Brabant by Offenbach at the Opéra de Montpellier and Opéra national de Lorraine, where he also staged Il medico dei pazzi by Battistelli.

Notably, Carlos Wagner has directed several world premieres, including Juana by Enric Palomar, created for Theater Halle and the Gran Teatre del Liceu as part of the Festival de Butxaca, and Phantom Palace by Hilda Paredes, co-commissioned by the Festival of Arts and Ideas and Musik der Jahrhunderte in Stuttgart. He was commissioned to conceive and stage Had I a Song, a biographical performance on Ivor Gurney for Muziektheater Transparant in Antwerp, and created the original works Orpheus Frequency and Syrinx for ENO Studio in London.

Carlos Wagner’s work has been presented by leading opera houses and festivals across Europe and beyond, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, El Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, OsterKlang-Festival in Vienna, Oper Leipzig, Opéra national de Bordeaux and the Festival of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut, USA.

 
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