Hendrik Müller
Director
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Born in 1977 Hendrik Müller caught the attention of press and audiences alike with many productions including, most recently, Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Theater in Osnabruck, Herzog Ernst II's Santa Chiara at the Staatstheater in Meiningen, Auber's Fra Diavolo at the Theater in Erfurt, Kurt Weill's Street Scene at Theater Münster and his third project in South Korea, Hänsel und Gretel at the Daegu Opera House. He's a regular guest at Theater Regensburg, where he made his debut with Carmen and enjoyed great success with Puccini‘s Edgar and the world premiere of Juri Reinvere‘s MINONA. He also worked regularly at the Staatstheater in Schwerin, on WINTER.REISE, Dvorak's Rusalka and Die Csárdásfürstin. Projects at the Landestheater in Schleswig-Holstein have included Die Zauberflöte, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Chekhov's Cherry Orchard and, to open the 2023/24 season, Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. He made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2013 with Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima e di corpo in the Bockenheimer Depot, which was followed by this production of Rigoletto. Other highlights in recent seasons included Donizetti's Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali at the Wilhelma Theater in Stuttgart, Berlinerleben - and Offenbach adaptation - in Berlin, Vivaldi's Tito Manlio at Theater Heidelberg, Vivier's Kopernikus and a Fake and Error double bill in Freiburg and Schweitzer's Alceste in Weimar, which received several nominations in Opernwelt magazine for »Rediscovery of the Year«. He also enjoyed success with productions for theatres including the Semperoper in Dresden, the Handel Festival in Halle, Landestheater in Coburg and Theater Lindau. He returned to the Staatstheater in Meiningen for Madama Butterfly and made his debut at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern with Don Carlo. Hendrik Müller took up the post of Opera Director at the Landestheater in Schleswig-Holsteinischen at the start of the 2024/25 season, which he opens with Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges.