JOHANNES WEIGAND (Director) was born in 1966 in Heidelberg and studied opera and music theater direction at the Hamburg Conservatory under Götz Friedrich. His first engagements as assistant director brought him to the Frankfurt Opera, Bonn Opera, Salzburg Festival, Nice Opera, and Los Angeles Opera, and led to repeated collaborations with directors including Herbert Wernicke, Giancarlo del Monaco, and Achim Freyer. From 2001 he worked with Klaus-Peter Kehr as principal stage director for the opera in Wuppertal after earlier staging Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In Wuppertal he has created a wide range of productions, from children’s pieces and operettas to modern music theater. Recent new works include The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams in 2005, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in 2006, and the world premiere of La porta della legge. He has been artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera since 2009.
