Claus Guth was born in Frankfurt and studied philosophy, German literature, and theater at the University of Munich. In 1999, he staged the world premiere of Luciano Berio's Cronaca del Luogo at the Salzburg Festival. He also presented Iphigénie en Tauride, Zaide, and the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy there.Guth has also made a name for himself staging Wagner operas, including Lohengrin at La Scala in Milan, Tannhäuser at the Vienna State Opera, Tristan und Isolde at the Zurich Opera House, and the Ring cycle at the Hamburg State Opera. His recent productions include the world premiere of Heart Chamber by Chaya Czernowin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2019; the revival of Don Giovanni in Madrid in 2020; Salome at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; ; Dialogues des Carmélites at the Frankfurt Opera; and Jenůfa (winner of the Olivier Award for Best Lyric Performance) at the Royal Opera House in London. Other productions include L'Affaire Makropoulos at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin; The Marriage of Figaro in Madrid; Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; The world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Il Viaggio; Dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; Elektra at the Frankfurt Opera; and Turandot at the Vienna State Opera in 2022. Sémélé at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Doppelgänger at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, La Khovantchina at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and Samson at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2024.He has twice been awarded the Prix Faust, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Production in 2022 and the Prix Oper! in 2023. In the 2025-2026 season, he will direct Scylla and Glaucus at the Opernhaus Zurich and Of One Blood at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.At Opéra national de Paris: Rigoletto, 2016; Lohengrin, 2017; La Bohème, 2017; Jephtha, 2018; Bérénice, 2018; Don Giovanni, 2023; Il Viaggio, Dante, 2025

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