Kirill Serebrennikov
Kirill Serebrennikov was born Rostov-on-Don and graduated in physics there in 1992. During his university studies he began a career as a self-taught theatre, opera, film and TV director and costume designer.
Salome at Stuttgart Opera and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Komische Oper Berlin were the first highly regarded productions which introduced Kirill Serebrennikov to an audience outside Russia. Together with Teodor Currentzis, Kirill Serebrennikov created Mysterion (based on Carl Orff’s De Temporum Fine Comedia) and the charity project Requiem (by Alexei Sioumak), in which he also worked as an author. Other productions were Falstaff at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Le coq d´or at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and American Lulu at the Vienna Festival.
His interpretation of Così fan tutte at Zurich Opera in autumn 2018 was a sensational success, as were his Nabucco production at Hamburg State Opera in spring 2019 and his Il barbiere di Siviglia production at Basel Theatre in autumn 2019. In March 2020 Kirill Serebrennikov débuted with his first play in Germany, staging his adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decamerone at the Deutsche Theater Berlin.
Kirill Serebrennikov won awards at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Student. Other films such as The Swallow, Mysteries of the Storm, Playing the Victim, The Diary of a Murderer were shown at the film festivals in Rome, Locarno and Venice, and were nominated for the Golden Lion and the Grand Prix of Kinotavr in Sochi.
Kirill Serebrennikov has staged not only numerous classics of Russian literature, but also works ranging from Shakespeare through Brecht to the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. His production of Plastilin by von Vassily Sigarev won an arte award, and has been invited to numerous European theatre festivals. In 2011 he founded an experimental workshop project Plattform in Moscow.
As artistic director of Studio Seven, a collective of young artists, his productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. Studio Seven became part of the Gogol Centre, where Kirill Serebrennikov has been artistic director since 2012.
The Gogol Centre in Moscow is a genre-breaking theatrical laboratory, and is unique in the Russian cultural landscape. Here he staged, among other things, Dead Souls by Gogol, a musical adaptation of Duncan Sheik, which is based on Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, and Machine Müller, based on Heiner Müllers’ Hamletmachine in collaboration with the Goethe Institute.
Kirill Serebrennikov was awarded the Golden Mask in April 2019 for his productions of the Nureyev at Bolshoi Theatre ballet and Pushkin’s Little Tragedies at the Gogol Centre.
Performances with Kirill Serebrennikov
with Vittorio Grigolo, Étienne Dupuis, Ain Anger, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Elena Stikhina, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Ilia Staple, Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Don Carlo
Cast on Friday 4. September 2026
Abo 7
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 24. Oktober 2025 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
| 16. Jänner 2026 | Idomeneo |
| 13. März 2026 | Don Pasquale |
| 10. April 2026 | Visionary Dances (Ballett) |
| 12. Juni 2026 | Animal Farm |
| 04. September 2026 | Don Carlo |
| 15. Jänner 2027 | Fidelio |
| 12. Februar 2027 | Der Rosenkavalier |
| 26. Februar 2027 | Norma |
| 04. Juni 2027 | Woolf Works |
with Vittorio Grigolo, Étienne Dupuis, Ain Anger, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Elena Stikhina, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Ilia Staple, Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Don Carlo
Cast on Monday 7. September 2026
Abo 15
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 29. September 2025 | Tosca |
| 15. Dezember 2025 | La Bohème |
| 12. Jänner 2026 | Kallirhoe (Ballett) |
| 13. April 2026 | Wozzeck |
| 18. Mai 2026 | Der Rosenkavalier |
| 07. September 2026 | Don Carlo |
| 11. Jänner 2027 | Die verkaufte Braut |
| 26. April 2027 | Così fan tutte |
| 31. Mai 2027 | Woolf Works |
| 21. Juni 2027 | Andrea Chénier |
with Vittorio Grigolo, Étienne Dupuis, Ain Anger, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Elena Stikhina, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Ilia Staple, Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Don Carlo
Cast on Thursday 10. September 2026
Abo 17
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 11. September 2025 | Otello |
| 20. November 2025 | Dialogues des Carmélites |
| 26. Februar 2026 | Luisa Miller |
| 26. März 2026 | Die verkaufte Braut |
| 23. April 2026 | Giselle (Ballett) |
| 10. September 2026 | Don Carlo |
| 08. Oktober 2026 | Eine florentinische Tragödie/Herzog Blaubarts Burg |
| 28. Jänner 2027 | Don Giovanni |
| 08. April 2027 | Tristan und Isolde |
| 20. Mai 2027 | Lulu |
with Vittorio Grigolo, Étienne Dupuis, Ain Anger, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Elena Stikhina, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Ilia Staple, Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Don Carlo
Cast on Sunday 13. September 2026
Zyklus »Weltliteratur auf der Opernbühne«
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Komponisten ließen sich oft von großen literarischen Werken inspirieren und schufen daraus unsterbliche Opern. Dieser Zyklus vereint fünf Meisterwerke nach Schiller, Shakespeare, Goethe, Prévost und Wedekind.
with Vittorio Grigolo, Étienne Dupuis, Ain Anger, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Elena Stikhina, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Ilia Staple, Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Don Carlo
Cast on Wednesday 16. September 2026
Abo 10
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 17. September 2025 | Tannhäsuer |
| 22. Oktober 2025 | Kallirhoe (Ballett) |
| 12. November 2025 | Faust |
| 25. März 2026 | Le grand macabre |
| 20. Mai 2026 | Les Pêcheurs de perles |
| 16. September 2026 | Don Carlo |
| 21. Oktober 2026 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
| 25. November 2026 | Ariadne auf Naxos |
| 28. April 2027 | Die tote Stadt |
| 02. Juni 2027 | Woolf Works |
with Ludovic Tézier, Christof Fischesser, Matheus França, Piotr Beczała, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Simone Schneider, Conductor: Simone Young
Parsifal
Cast on Thursday 25. March 2027
Zyklus »Wagner«
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Werke Richard Wagners zählen zu den Grundpfeilern des Repertoires und gelten vielen als »Opernfeiertage«. Der beliebte Zyklus vereint Werke aus verschiedenen Schaffensphasen – vom frühen Holländer bis zu Parsifal.
with Ludovic Tézier, Christof Fischesser, Matheus França, Piotr Beczała, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Simone Schneider, Conductor: Simone Young
Parsifal
Cast on Monday 29. March 2027
with Ludovic Tézier, Christof Fischesser, Matheus França, Piotr Beczała, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Simone Schneider, Conductor: Simone Young
Parsifal
Cast on Thursday 1. April 2027
Abo 18
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 04. September 2025 | Otello |
| 16. Oktober 2025 | Così fan tutte |
| 05. Februar 2026 | Jewels (Ballett) |
| 28. Mai 2026 | Eugen Onegin |
| 25. Juni 2026 | Il trittico |
| 17. September 2026 | Le nozze di Figaro |
| 15. Oktober 2026 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
| 07. Jänner 2027 | Werther |
| 11. Februar 2027 | Living Legacies |
| 01. April 2027 | Parsifal |
with Ludovic Tézier, Christof Fischesser, Matheus França, Piotr Beczała, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Simone Schneider, Conductor: Simone Young
Parsifal
Cast on Saturday 3. April 2027