Thaddeus Strassberger

Thaddeus Strassberger earned a degree in Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City; he received a Fulbright Fellowship to complete the Corso di Specializzazione per Scenografi Realizzatori at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2001. Не won the European Opera Prize in 2005 for his Opera Ireland production of La Cenerentola.

He has created productions for Den Norske Opera, Theater an der Wien, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Washington National Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Minnesota Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Palau de las Arts, L'opera de Montreal among others. Upcoming productions include Carmen (The Danish National Opera) and La Clemenza di Tito (LA Opera).

For Bard Summercape, he has previously created five new productions: Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, Der Ferne Klang and The Wreckers by Schreker, The Oresteia by Taneyev, Le Roi Malgre Lui by Chabrier. Recent notable productions include: I Due Foskari (Covent Garden) and Nabucco (LA Opera), both starring Plácido Domingo, and JFK, for his production of Satyagraha, in Ekaterinburg where he also directed The Passenger (Russian premiere) and Martinů’s The Greek Passion, in a new Russian translation.