Lukas Hemleb - director
Lukas Hemleb was born in Frankfurt. In 1985 he made his debut as Director in Germany
and Belgium.
He then moved to France where he soon started to be known for his work directing
in theaters such as L’Odéon, La Comédie Francaise, MC 93 de Bobigny, Théâtre de
Gennevilliers, TGP in St Denis, Théâtre des Abbesses, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, and
in Austria at the Burgtheater in Vienna. In these years he also worked on theatre
projects in Cameroun and Nigeria.
In Opera his range of repertory includes contemporary works as well as great operas
by Verdi and Mozart. He also focused on Baroque repertoire such as Telemaco
by Alessandro Scarlatti in Schwetzinger Festspiele (2005) and revived in Düsseldorf,
Duisburg and Heilbronn, Ariodante by Haendel at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
(2007) and revived in Vienna (2008) and Niobe, regina di Tebe by Agostino
Steffani again in Schwetzingen, in Lisbon, London ( Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
and Luxembourg.
In 2010 he directed Giulio Cesare by Haendel at Opera Dortmund.
In theatre he staged in 2003 Dindon by Feydeau at the Comédie-Française.
This production has been transmitted in the French and German TV (Arte, France 3,
Télé 7). Again in 2007 at the Comédie-Française he worked on Misanthrope.
This production has been toured all over France and has also been presented at the
Festival de Otoño in Madrid. The same year at Théâtre Gérard Philippe à St. Denis
he presented his adaptation of La Marquise d’O by Heinrich von Kleist and
in 2009 федра (Phèdre) by Marina Tsvetaeva, in Russian, he worked with the
Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. This performance was produced by the Chekhov International
Theatre Festival.
In 2014 he directed Jon Fosse's Je suis le vent (set and costumes by
Pietro Babina) presented and produced by Maison de la Culture d'Amiens and Emilia
Romagna Teatri in Modena and Bologna.
Parallel to his European work he explored the Chinese and Taiwanese traditional
theatre collaborating with artists of traditional music Nanguan. In 2012
after spending 7 months in Japan and getting his graduation at the Villa Médicis-hors-les-murs
at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, he came back to Europe to direct Harper Regan
(by Simon Stephens), Z - Je me crois à l’enfer donc j’y suis (by Rimbaud),
Les Arrangements (Pauline Sales). All these productions were produced and
toured in French theatres.
In 2014 Gerard Mortier invited him to direct Lohengrin at the Teatro Real
in Madrid and in the beginning of 2015 he directed Iphigénie en Tauride by
Gluck at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
2016 started with a new and very succesful production in collaboration with video
maker Luca Scarzella for Tosca at Theater Kiel. Amongst his future plans
it is worth mentioning Les Huguenots at Theater Kiel.
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