Kasper Holten

Kasper Holten is Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

2011 sees the release of Kasper Holten’s contemporary and ground-breaking motion picture JUAN based on Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Plans include a new production Lohengrin for the Deutsche Oper and Beatrice et Benedict for Theater an der Wien as well as productions 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.