David Hermann

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Biography
Franco-German director David Hermann studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and began his career assisting Hans Neuenfels. In 2000, he was awarded first prize at the International Competition for Directing and Stage Design in Graz. His Krenek trilogy at Oper Frankfurt, which won in the “Rediscovered Work” category, earned him a nomination for Best Director at the 2018 International Opera Awards in London. In 2023, he received the prestigious Deutscher Theaterpreis Der Faust in the category “Opera” for his direction of Gordon Kampe’s Dogville.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Agamemnone at Theater Bern and the Italian premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s L’Inferno at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. He will also direct a new production of Korngold’s Violanta at Deutsche Oper Berlin and return to Opéra de Montpellier for the revival of his Falstaff, as well as to Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for the remake of his Ariadne auf Naxos.

Recent successes include Don Giovanni at the Bayerische Staatsoper München and a critically acclaimed production of Albéric Magnard’s Guercœur at Oper Frankfurt. He directed the world premieres of Lucia Ronchetti’s Der Doppelgänger (Schwetzinger Festspiele) and Gordon Kampe’s Dogville (Aalto Theater Essen). Other major credits include Tannhäuser (Opéra de Lyon), Die Frau ohne Schatten and Das Lied von der Erde (Oper Stuttgart), Fidelio (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Falstaff (Staatstheater Nürnberg, Opéra national de Montpellier), Così fan tutte (Opéra National du Rhin), Parsifal and Lohengrin (Staatstheater Nürnberg), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Theater Bern), and Warten auf Heute—a program of short works by Frank Martin and Arnold Schoenberg including Erwartung (Oper Frankfurt). He has also staged Cendrillon (Opéra national de Lorraine, Theater Klagenfurt) and the world premiere of ’Tis Pity She is a Whore (Deutsche Oper am Rhein).

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