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Lukas Hemleb
- director
Lukas Hemleb grew up in Germany and lives and works since many years in France.
His projects cover a wide range of authors, from ancient verse to contemporary
literature and have been performed at a wide range of important theaters
in Paris and all over France, as well as in Switzerland, Austria, Germany,
Belgium, Italy, and Spain. His productions for the “Comédie-Française” have been
sent on tour in several european countries and broadcasted by television in
France and Germany. In Opera his repertory includes contemporary works as well
as great operas by Verdi and Mozart. He is present at some major opera stages in
Europe — in Paris, Lisbon, Vienna, London, at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and
in Madrid. He also focused on Baroque repertoire. His collaboration with Thomas
Hengelbrock contributed to the rediscovery of forgotten operas by composers such
as Alessandro Scarlatti and Agostino Steffani. He directed Telemaco in
Schwetzinger Festspiele, Ariodante by Haendel at Théâtre des
Champs-Elysées and Vienna, Niobe, regina di Tebe in Schwetzingen, Lisbon,
London and Luxembourg. In 2010 he directed Giulio Cesare by Haendel at
Opera Dortmund and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in 2014 he
directed Lohengrin at Teatro Real in Madrid collaborating with the artist
and designer Alexander Polzin. Very engaged in the study of chinese culture, he
has run several productions in Taiwan, in collaboration with the Han Tang Yuefu
Company and with the Xinxin Nanguan Workshop. The Legend of the Luo River
Goddess was invited to the Forbidden City in Beijing. In 2008 he directed
the contemporary opera Black Bearded Bible Man by Gordon Chin in Taipei.
In 2009 he staged Marina Tsvetaeva’s verse drama Fedra in Moscow. The
Nanguan opera Feather was created 2010 in Taipei and invited to the New
Vision Arts Festival in Hongkong. In January 2011 he staged Simon Stephens’
play Harper Regan in Amiens and Paris. In Lyon he created a theater and
music installation about Rimbaud called Z - Je me crois en enfer donc j’y
suis in collaboration with visual artists and musicians from the U.S. and
Japan. In 2012 he spent seven months at the “Villa Medicis-hors-les-murs” in
Kyoto in Japan.
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