Christian Räth
© Ute Mans
‘Immaculate timing’
‘A director who really seems to understand what the music “means”... He moves his pieces with immaculate timing and a real eye for the stage picture… Opera productions don’t get much better than this’
Christian Räth is a Hamburg-born opera director and designer working with leading international opera houses across Europe, the United States and Asia, with a repertoire spanning Mozart, Britten, Bartók, contemporary opera and musical theatre. His work includes major opera productions as well as large-scale cultural ceremonies, reflecting a practice that moves between traditional staging and event-based direction. He has also built long-standing collaborative relationships with directors including Laurent Pelly, frequently contributing as associate and revival director on major productions.
‘Each great opera has its own musical and dramatical logic and you have to be flexible in order to transform it into a theatrical performance. The music always tells you which way to go’
