Daniel Kramer

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Daniel Kramer, born in America, has steadily established himself as a highly versatile international artist, with his diverse productions attracting a great deal of popular debate and high praise from the global press. He is best known for his iconoclastic work as an opera and theatre director. 
He was also artistic director of the English National Opera, but then returned to directing and has since created a string of daring, sell out productions across the EU and Asia. As a director, he often collaborates with visual and conceptual artists. He also writes librettos for new compositions, holds masterclasses regularly at leading universities such as Harvard, Brown, NYU, Guildhal and Trinity - and consults for many private houses & clients worldwide. 
Daniel Kramer's works cannot be defined by any particular style. 
 
His credits include Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, Grand Theatre Geneva (upcoming). Prima la Mamma, Die Tote Stadt, Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Satyagraha, Nixon in China, Hannover State Opera. Turandot, Grand Theatre Geneva & Nikikai Opera, Tokyo, designed by TeamLab. Mask of Orpheus (ENO with costumes by Daniel Lismore). Punch & Judy (Grand Theatre Geneva & Young Vic/ENO – South Bank Award Outstanding Opera). War Requiem (ENO, Taiwan and Barcelona, designed by Wolfgang Tillman and Nasir Mazhar). La traviata and La Boheme (Theatre Basel). Sadko (Vlaamse & Bratislava Opera). Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe). Tristan and Isolde designed by Anish Kapoor (ENO), Pelléas et Mélisande (Mariinsky & Bolshoi Theatre, Golden Mask Awards). Carmen (Vlaamse Opera & Opera North). Bluebeard’s Castle (ENO, Mariinsky & Bolshoi Theatre – Golden Mask Awards). Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadlers Wels & Young Vic). Tosca (Wermland Opera, Sweden). Angles in America (Headlong National Tour, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Northern Stage, Lowry Manchester, Cambridge, Lyric Hammersmith, TMA Awards). Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre London). Bent starring Alan Cumming (West End). Hair (Gate Theatre London). Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse & West End). Kaspar, Angels in America and Pelléas et Mélisande, Burg Theatre, Vienna. 
As a Librettist he has two NYC world premieres soon to open in 2026: "Square-Off" for voice, interactive kinetic sculpture and orchestra; and the full length opera, "The Riddle" - an end of America fantasy that retraces the myth of Hagar, Sarah and Isaac into the future. Both world premieres are composed by the American-Israeli composer Tamar Muskal. 
 

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2025-11-11

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