After staging Massenet's Manon and Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the St Gallen Theatre, Jan Schmidt-Garre is now making his debut on German opera stage with Richard Strauss' Arabella at the Leipzig Opera. Opening night on June 18, 2016.

Jan Schmidt-Garre first made his mark as movie director with topics focused on music and art (his documentary "Opera Fanatic" for instance was highly acclaimed in the opera world). Due to his passion and knowledge concerning opera and having even graduated from studies of stage direction and conducting, he developed the idea to direct operas. Meanwhile his wish has become true!

20.05.2016