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Philipp Grigorian is a director, set designer, and drama teacher with over twenty years of professional experience. His work exists at the intersection of drama, performance, and installation, shaped by his practice of uniting directing and scenography within a single artistic vision.
In the season 2025/26, Philipp Grigorian makes his debut as both director and set designer at the Wiener Staatsoper with Verdi’s Luisa Miller.
Among his recent productions are Xerxes, and the musical Wintergreen for President (Of Thee I Sing) in Stadttheater Giessen, Bluebeard’s Castle in Oper Wuppertal, the opera buffa La Périchole in Bolshoi Theatre, The Love for Three Oranges in Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, Tartuffe in Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, The Marriage and The Clockwork Orange in The Theatre of Nations, Mayakovsky. Tragedy in Gogol Center.
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Wuppertal opera - Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle
Director Philipp Grigorian, who is also his own set designer, has built a hyper-realistic, musty green-grey room with twinkling living room lamps that refers to about the middle of the 20th century. Grigorian radically reinterprets the basic constellation of the characters, but without loss of substance: Bluebeard is here an old, terminally ill man and Judith not his new wife but his only daughter. He tells their gruelling encounter as a typical generational conflict of today's Russia, namely as a bitter dispute between parents who have also accumulated secrets with their wealth and their children who ask about the moral price of comfort.
Die Deutsche Bühne
In this way, Grigorian elegantly shifts the weights without lifting them. The compulsively erotic undertone that paints Judith (and her predecessors) as victims is thus reinterpreted, the secrets she wants to fathom Grigorian's trick can even leave as they are written. With every door that opens, riches, possessions and beauties are revealed, with blood on them. In addition to the two singing protagonists, Grigorian invents three predominantly silent roles, namely Bluebeard's wife, Judith's mother and Bluebeard's mother – a kind of oppressive family constellation, sparingly and impressively staged. In general, Grigorian's direction lives from concentration, reduction and high internal tension.
- Regine Müller , Die Deutsche Bühne
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Stadttheater Gießen - Handel - Xerxes
Philipp Grigorian dares a lot with his production of Handel's ‘Xerxes’ in Giessen and wins in the end, Vladimir Yaskorski assists in the pit with a sense of proportion.
- Jürgen Otten , der theaterverlag Opernwelt
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The director is not interested in making political statements on migration policy, but rather in using the respective setting as a playground to create sparks with unerring humour. This concept works wonderfully well, not least because all the actors are in an infectious playful mood. The audience is treated to a very entertaining and, despite its three-hour duration, highly diverting evening.
- Michael Demel , Der opern freund
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Stadttheater Gießen - Gershwin - Wintergreen for President
Director and set designer Philipp Grigorian stages a dazzling political satire at the Stadttheater Gießen.
- Michael Kaminski , Die Deutsches Buhne
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Director Philipp Grigorian uses the original to immediately pick up speed on the rotating revolving stage of the main house and infuse it with a Broadway flair.
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Director Philipp Grigorian has wrapped the original story in a dream setting, allowing him to delve into even more absurdities than the plot already allows.
- Ingo Göllner , Musicalzentrale
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