Tobias Hoheisel
Tobias Hoheisel is a German-born stage designer and director.
Career
At Glyndebourne he designed productions of Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, The Makropulos Affair and Jenůfa, as well as Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice and Smetana's The Bartered Bride. He has designed productions for the English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Scottish Opera. He has designed for many UK theatre companies including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida and the Royal Court. He has created productions at the Vienna State Opera, Burgtheater, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Cologne Opera, Nederlandse Reisopera in Enschede, Paris Opera, Gran Teatro Liceu, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and New York City Opera, as well as the festivals at Drottningholm, Graz, Vienna, Munich, Glimmerglass, Florence and Santa Fe.At the Edinburgh International Festival Hoheisel designed and, together with the German actress Imogen Kogge, directed Smetana's The Two Widows.
Major influences in his work were Peter Stein and, Luc Bondy, Robert Wilson, as well as Giorgio Strehler and Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil.