David Hermann

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Biography
Franco-German director David Hermann studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and was an assistant to Hans Neuenfels. In 2000, he won first prize at the International Competition for Directing and Stage Design in Graz. For his Krenek trilogy at Oper Frankfurt, which won in the “Rediscovered Work” category, he was nominated for Best Director at the 2018 International Opera Awards in London. In 2023, he won the Deutscher Theaterpreis Der Faust 2023 in the category ‘Oper’ for direction for Gordon Kampe’s Dogville.

Highlights in the season 2024/25 include his house debut with Don Giovanni at the Bayerische Staatsoper München as well as his return to Oper Frankfurt with a new production of Magnard’s Guercœur.

Most recently  David Hermann directed the world premieres of Ronchetti’s Der Doppelgänger (Schwetzinger Festspiele) and Kampe‘s Dogville (Aalto Theater Essen), Tannhäuser (Opéra de Lyon), Frau ohne Schatten and Das Lied von der Erde (Oper Stuttgart), Fidelio (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Falstaff (Staatstheater Nürnberg, Opéra national de Montpellier), Cosi fan tutte (Opéra National du Rhin), Parsifal and Lohengrin (Staatstheater Nürnberg), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Theater Bern), several short works by Frank Martin and Schoenberg, including Erwartung in an evening titled Warten Auf Heute (Oper Frankfurt), Cendrillon (Opéra national de Lorraine, Theater Klagenfurt) and the world premiere of ’Tis Pity she is a Whore (Deutsche Oper am Rhein).More
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