15 August 6pm at the Carnegie Arts Centre Kenmare
What’s life like on the road in the business of arthouse show business?
How does a traditional play or opera leap from page to radical opening night? What’s all the controversy about!? Come chat with internationally acclaimed opera and theatre director Daniel Kramer on the mad world of show business. Or art. What’s the difference? Music. Naughty stories. High art. Come chat.
Daniel Kramer is the former Artistic Director at English National Opera, Creative Associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Associate Artist at the Young Vic and the Gate Theatre, London. Opera directing credits include Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (upcoming Grand Theatre Geneva); Prima la Mamma!, Die tote Stadt (Oper am Rhein); Satyagraha, Nixon in China (Hannover State Opera, Wanderpreis 2025 for Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Production); Turandot (Grand Theatre Geneva & Nikikai Opera, Tokyo, designed by TeamLab); Bluebeard’s Castle, Mask of Orpheus (ENO); Punch & Judy (Grand Theatre Geneva & Young Vic/ENO – South Bank Award Outstanding Opera); War Requiem (ENO, Taiwan, Gran Teatre Liceu Barcelona, designed by Wolfgang Tillmans); La traviata and La Boheme (Theatre Basel); Sadko (Vlaamse & Bratislava); Romeo and Juliet(Shakespeare’s Globe); Tristan and Isolde (ENO designed by Anish Kapoor); Pelleas et Melisande and Bluebeard’s Castle (Mariinsky & Bolshoi, Russia, Golden Mask Awards, conducted by Valery Gergiev); Carmen (Vlaamse Opera & Opera North); Tosca (Wermland, Sweden). Theatre credits include Angles in America (Headlong National Tour, TMA Awards); Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY and Gate, London); Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadlers Wells & Young Vic); Bent starring Alan Cumming (West End); Hair (Gate London); Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse & West End). Kaspar, Angels in America and Pelleas et Melisande, Burg Theatre, Vienna. Daniel is also an ongoing guest Professor and Lecturer at Harvard University (Outstanding Professor of the Year 2016), Brown, NYU, Northwestern, The Lir at Trinity Dublin, LAMDA and the Guildhall School of Drama, London.
15 August 6pm at the Carnegie Arts Centre Kenmare
What’s life like on the road in the business of arthouse show business?
How does a traditional play or opera leap from page to radical opening night? What’s all the controversy about!? Come chat with internationally acclaimed opera and theatre director Daniel Kramer on the mad world of show business. Or art. What’s the difference? Music. Naughty stories. High art. Come chat.
Daniel Kramer is the former Artistic Director at English National Opera, Creative Associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Associate Artist at the Young Vic and the Gate Theatre, London. Opera directing credits include Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (upcoming Grand Theatre Geneva); Prima la Mamma!, Die tote Stadt (Oper am Rhein); Satyagraha, Nixon in China (Hannover State Opera, Wanderpreis 2025 for Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Production); Turandot (Grand Theatre Geneva & Nikikai Opera, Tokyo, designed by TeamLab); Bluebeard’s Castle, Mask of Orpheus (ENO); Punch & Judy (Grand Theatre Geneva & Young Vic/ENO – South Bank Award Outstanding Opera); War Requiem (ENO, Taiwan, Gran Teatre Liceu Barcelona, designed by Wolfgang Tillmans); La traviata and La Boheme (Theatre Basel); Sadko (Vlaamse & Bratislava); Romeo and Juliet(Shakespeare’s Globe); Tristan and Isolde (ENO designed by Anish Kapoor); Pelleas et Melisande and Bluebeard’s Castle (Mariinsky & Bolshoi, Russia, Golden Mask Awards, conducted by Valery Gergiev); Carmen (Vlaamse Opera & Opera North); Tosca (Wermland, Sweden). Theatre credits include Angles in America (Headlong National Tour, TMA Awards); Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY and Gate, London); Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadlers Wells & Young Vic); Bent starring Alan Cumming (West End); Hair (Gate London); Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse & West End). Kaspar, Angels in America and Pelleas et Melisande, Burg Theatre, Vienna. Daniel is also an ongoing guest Professor and Lecturer at Harvard University (Outstanding Professor of the Year 2016), Brown, NYU, Northwestern, The Lir at Trinity Dublin, LAMDA and the Guildhall School of Drama, London.
