Kirill Serebrennikov

In the 2024/25 season, Kirill Serebrennikov staged Don Carlo at the Vienna State Opera, Life with an Idiot by Alfred Schnittke at the Zurich Opera, Don Giovanni at the Komische Oper Berlin and returned to De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam with Boris Godunov. His first international successes included Salome at the Stuttgart Opera and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Komische Oper Berlin. In collaboration with Teodor Currentzis he realized Mysterion and the benefit project Requiem (Alexei Sioumak). Further productions were Falstaff at the Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Le coq d‘or at the Bolshoi Moscow and American Lulu at the Wiener Festwochen.

His production of Cosi fan tutte at the Zurich Opera in 2018 was a sensational success, as was Nabucco at the Hamburg State Opera in 2019 and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Theater Basel. In 2020, he made his debut as an acting director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin with an adaptation of Boccaccio‘s Decamerone. Further successes include Parsifal at the Vienna State Opera (2021) and Die Nase at the Bavarian State Opera (2021).

Serebrennikov was honored at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 for The Student and founded the experimental project Platform in Moscow in 2011.