Kasper Holten
“Holten’s handiwork is unimpeachable, his images memorably wrought.” (Financial Times)
BIOGRAPHY
Director of Opera: Royal Opera House
Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Kasper Holten's upcoming work will be seen in London, Turin, Sydney, Oslo, Vienna, Helsinki, Tokyo and Copenhagen including new productions of Beatrice et Benedict for Theater an der Wien and Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House.
In his previous eleven years as Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera he made audiences laugh, cry and, above all, engage in a series of provocative productions ranging from Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre to Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady via Verdi’s Don Carlos and Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten. Above all his landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen - aka “The Copenhagen Ring” - has now been internationally acclaimed following its release on DVD followed by his new production of Tannhäuser - both available on Decca.
REVIEWS
"All this helps the film’s conviction. So does Holten’s stylistic treatment, reminiscent of the contemporary urban thriller...Holten has created a film that treats the opera with the respectful kind of disrespect that leaves the work’s core intact. " (The Times, September 2012)
“The Emperor’s Red Falcon has surely never been more convincingly done. His characterizations of the important figures of the drama were handled with a straightforward clarity that anyone without a detailed knowledge of the text would have been able to follow. In this opera that is an achievement. The staging looked beautiful, sometimes breathtaking.” (Die Frau ohne Schatten - Opera Magazine, September 2011)
“Holten’s handiwork is unimpeachable, his images memorably wrought.” (Tannhäuser - Financial Times, December 2009)
“This is a wonderful Ring to watch as well as to listen to, a must-have for Wagnerians anywhere.” (Opera Magazine, November 2008)
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