Stage direction

Olivier Tambosi

Paris-born Olivier Tambosi studied philosophy and theology at the University of Vienna as well as theatre music directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. After his first drama and musical stage productions in the Vienna Free Stage Scene he in 1989 founded Austria's first independent opera troupe, the »Neue Oper Wien« whose artistic direction he held until 1993. After that and until 1996 he was senior drama director for Musiktheater am Stadttheater Klagenfurt where he left his characteristic mark on the establishment with numerous stage productions and attracted trans-regional attention.

Since 1996 he has worked internationally as an opera director, in London (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Dublin, Strasbourg, Barcelona (Gran Teatro del Liceu), Florence (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Helsinki and Zagreb, Hamburg, Hanover, Mannheim, Nuremberg, Dortmund, Saarbrücken and Weimar, Vienna (Volksoper), Graz, Linz, Bregenz (Festspielhaus), Klagenfurt, Bern and Lucerne. In the United States he has staged productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and in the opera houses of Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston as well as at the New York Bard Festival. Other stage productions took him to Japan (Saito Kinen Festival) and to Mexico (Festival de Mayo).

Olivier Tambosi's broad repertoire stretches from baroque to contemporary. The focus of his creative work for a long time was exclusively on opera but in recent years he has increasingly turned his interest to operetta and, most recently, to drama.

He made his debut at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in 2015 with »Così fan tutte«.