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.

Biography

Hoheisel was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and studied theatre design at the then Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he lived until moving to London in 1993. He was taught by Achim Freyer and Martin Rupprecht, before working as assistant to Marco Marelli. He also assisted Karl-Ernst Herrmann on two Mozart productions: Don Giovanni and La finta giardiniera at La Monnaie in Brussels.