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Born in Bavaria, Tobias Kratzer studied art history and philosophy in Munich and Berne, and theater and opera direction at the Bavarian August-Everding Theater Academy. In 2008, he won a number of special prizes and first prize in the international Ring Award competition in Graz.
Since then, he has staged numerous productions. He has staged a cycle based on Meyerbeer's three great historical operas: Les Huguenots, Le Prophète and L'Africaine. His stagings of Les Maîtres chanteurs de Nuremberg and Le Crépuscule des dieux have been shortlisted several times for the Achievement of the Year award, and his staging of Princesse Czardas for the Austrian Musical Theater Award. He won the Faust prize for best opera director for Le Crépuscule des dieux in Karlsruhe.Il a mis en scène une version de Rigoletto pour cinq pianos et orchestre de chambre, une réalisation scénique de la Passion selon saint Jean et une trilogie autour de la Révolution avec Le Barbier de Séville, Les Noces de Figaro et Fidelio au Wermland Opera de Karlstad.
In recent years, he has directed Lucio Silla at La Monnaie in Brussels and Karlsruhe, Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Amsterdam, Guillaume Tell at Opéra national de Lyon, Fidelio at the Royal Opera House in London, Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival, Mascarade and La Force du destin at the Frankfurt Opera, Le Nain at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Le Triptyque at La Monnaie in Brussels, Moses and Pharaoh at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, La Pie voleuse at Musiktheater an der Wien, Arabella at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Le Radeau de la méduse at Komische Oper Berlin, Bluebeard's Castle in Oslo, Liebesgesang in Bern.
In the 2024-2025 season, he will direct L'Or du Rhin at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and La Femme sans ombre at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Tobias Kratzer is appointed Director of the Hamburg Staatsoper as of the 2025-2026 season.
At the Opéra national de Paris: Faust, 2021
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