Biography
Philipp Himmelmann studied voice and opera direction at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg, graduating with distinction. He continued his vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London.Philipp Himmelmann’s recent work includes a new staging of Bizet’s Carmen at Theater Lübeck, where he will return in the 2025/26 season to direct Les Contes d’Hoffmann. He has also directed Benjamin Godard’s Dante at Staatstheater Braunschweig, Aida at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra de Rouen, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and Opéra de Dijon, Pique Dame at Aalto Theater Essen, Die tote Stadt at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Le nozze di Figaro at the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera, Káťa Kabanová at the Opéra national de Lorraine, as well as Tosca, Don Giovanni, and Boito’s Mefistofele at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
Elsewhere, he has directed L’elisir d’amore (Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen), Die Fledermaus (Theater an der Wien, Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy), Don Giovanni and La Bohème (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Perm Tchaikovsky Opera), Der Zwerg and Die tote Stadt (Opéra national de Lorraine, Nantes Angers Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Staatstheater Hannover), Aida and Giulio Cesare (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Don Carlos (Staatsoper Berlin), Cardillac and Macbeth (Semperoper Dresden), Manon Lescaut (Staatsoper Hamburg), Dido and Aeneas (Palau de les Arts Valencia), and Tosca at the Bregenzer Festspiele.
Philipp Himmelmann has collaborated with many of today’s leading conductors and ensembles, including Sir Simon Rattle, Marco Armiliato, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Hengelbrock, Michael Boder, Adam Fischer, Marcello Viotti, Fabio Luisi, Daniele Gatti, Christian Thielemann, Ulf Schirmer, Massimo Zanetti, and Reinhard Goebel. His productions have been performed by prestigious orchestras and ensembles such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Ensemble musicaAeterna, the Balthasar Neumann Ensembles, and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Several of his productions have been released on DVD, including Tosca, Don Giovanni, Mefistofele, and L’elisir d’amore.
From 2014 to 2019, Philipp Himmelmann held a professorship in music theatre direction at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
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