Keith Warner

Keith Warner ( born December 6, 1956 in London ) is a British opera director who was best known for his Wagner productions.

Life

Keith Warner enthusiastic in his own words since he was 14 years for Wagner. From 1975 to 1978 he studied at the University of Bristol. He then worked as an actor as well as in alternative theater projects, where he taught drama therapy as well as for independent theater troops (see Fringe ( theater) ) staged. From 1981 to 1989 he worked as an assistant director at the English National Opera, one of the major opera houses in London, since 1985, Scottish Opera, Glasgow (Scotland). The late 1980s and early 1990s he worked as a director and artistic director of the southern English New Sussex Opera ( based in Lewes, Brighton and Hove ) and in the USA as artistic director at the Opera Omaha (Nebraska ).

In 1999 he was at the Bayreuth Festival, the director of Lohengrin ( in the Schedules 1999-2003 and 2005). Since then, he is busy guest - director for works of different composers at several leading European opera houses. Among them are the Dresden Semper Opera, the Frankfurt Opera and the Theater an der Wien. Twice he directed Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, at the New National Theatre Tokyo ( NNTT ) and at London's Royal Opera (2004 to 2006). From 2011 he was assigned as artistic director of the Copenhagen Opera House, but said after arguing about the budget from.