Krzysztof Warlikowski

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023 (2023)

After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Kr ...

Opéra National de Paris: Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet (2023)

Lulu - La Monnaie / De Munt (2021)

Alban Berg explores the power that Eros and Thanatos, in their rawest forms, have over our lives: Lulu, a femme fatale, will do anything to get ahead in a man's world, but she ends up being destroyed. ...

Elektra (2020)

Celebrate the triumphant return of the famed Salzburg Festival with this extraordinary production of Richard Strauss's Elektra, live from the spectacular Felsenreitschule! Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė makes her grand debut on the mythical festiva ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie) (2019)

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2019)

Of Shostakovich's initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean para ...

From the House of the Dead - La Monnaie / De Munt (2018)

Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky's autobiographical 1862 novel that drew on his experience as a political prisoner in Siberia. Janáček focuses on Dostoevsky's idea of the "spark of God" in every human bei ...

Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (2018)

Running through Bartók's disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc's monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciou ...

Berg: Wozzeck (2018)

Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a grimly tragic narrative of violence and murder into one of the most powerful and original operas of the 20th century. Berg's uncompromising portrayal of b ...

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos (2017)

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Krzysztof Warlikowski strips down a tragedy haunted by ghosts, and places the intimate at ...

Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (2016)

In order to fulfil the oracle's prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores of Tauride. Alas, it is Oreste, Iphigénie's own brother, who appears, having murdered their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge the death of their fathe ...

Médée, Opéra-comique de trois actes de Luigi Cherubini, 1797 (2011)

French version of Cherubini's opera staged in Brussels by Krzysztof Warlikowski ...

Im Olymp der Kunst (2013)

Italiani (2011)

Takes us deep into the intimate world of a man and his relationships with his family and friends. It is a journey deep into images and experiences so personal as to be, perhaps, completely universal. ...