Barrie Kosky Director

Born in Melbourne, Barrie Kosky presents his stagings on major international opera stages. From 2012 to 2022, he was Intendant of Berlin's Komische Oper. His awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production for Castor et Pollux at English National Opera, Best Director at the International Opera Awards in 2014 and 2023, and Opernwelt Director of the Year in 2016. Among the works he has directed at Berlin's Komische Oper are The Magic Flute (co-staged with the 1927 collective).

Barrie Kosky has directed opera productions for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (The Bat, The Silent Woman, Agrippina, The Angel of Fire, The Knight of the Rose, The Cunning Vixen), the Salzburg Festival (Orpheus in the Underworld, Kátia Kabanová), the Glyndebourne Festival (Saul, Dialogues des carmélites), Frankfurt Opera (Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle, Salome, Carmen, Hercules), Zurich Opera (La Fille du Far-West, Les Stigmatisés, Macbeth and Boris Godounov) and London's Royal Opera House (L'Or du Rhin, La Walkyrie, Le Nez, Agrippina and Carmen).

He has also presented his productions at Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Vienna Staatsoper, National Opera Amsterdam, English National Opera, Opera Graz, Theater Basel, Aalto Theater Essen, Staatsoper Hannover, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, and is a regular guest at the Edinburgh Festival. In the 2024-2025 season, he returns to Berlin's Komische Oper as a guest with several new productions, directs Manon Lescaut for Zurich Opera and returns to the Salzburg Festival. He is also back at London's Royal Opera House for the continuation of the Tetralogy.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Prince Igor, 2019