# Olivier Tambosi

Olivier Tambosi (born 7 July 1963) is an Austrian opera and operetta director.

## Life and career

Born in Paris, Tambosi studied music theatre direction at the University of Vienna. Philosophy and Theology, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
In 1990, he founded the Neue Oper Wien (artistic director until 1993). Subsequently, he was head of musical theatre at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt until 1996. Since 1996 he has made guest appearances internationally as a director and has worked among others with conductors Philippe Auguin, John Axelrod, Bruno Bartoletti, Jiří Bělohlávek, Dietfried Bernet, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Carignani, Frédéric Chaslin, James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies, Mark Elder, Mikko Franck, Bernard Haitink, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Jurowski, Karen Kamensek, Peter Keuschnig, Axel Kober, Walter Kobéra, Nicola Luisotti, Jun Märkl, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Donald Runnicles, Peter Schneider, Patrick Summers, Alexander Soddy.
Among the singers Tambosi has worked with are Marcelo Álvarez, Daniela Barcellona, Joseph Calleja, Barbara Frittoli, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Lucio Gallo, Vladimir Galouzin, Eric Halfvarsson, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Angelika Kirchschlager, Éva Marton, Karita Mattila, Deborah Polaski, Neil Shicoff, Anja Silja, Nina Stemme, Bryn Terfel, Ramón Vargas, Christopher Ventris, Linda Watson and Eva-Maria Westbroek.
His engagements have taken him in Austria among others to the Graz Opera, the Landestheater Linz, the Vienna Volksoper and the Bregenz Festival, in Germany to the Staatsoper Hannover, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, in Europe at the Liceu Barcelona, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, National Opera Helsinki, the Strasbourg Opera and to the Lucerne Festival, the Theater Biel Solothurn, in America to the Metropolitan Opera New York, to Chicago, Houston, San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles, San Diego Opera as well as to the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan.
Tambosi is married with the Swiss soprano Christiane Boesiger (born 1966 in Zürich).

## Mises en scene

Henry Purcell
* King Arthur
Georg Philipp Telemann
* Pimpinone
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
* La serva padrona
Christoph Willibald Gluck
* Orfeo ed Euridice
Joseph Haydn
* La fedeltà premiata
Antonio Salieri
* Prima la musica e poi le parole
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* Bastien und Bastienne
* Idomeneo
* Die Entführung aus dem Serail
* Le nozze di Figaro
* Don Giovanni
* Così fan tutte
* Die Zauberflöte
Luigi Cherubini
* Médée
Gaetano Donizetti
* L'elisir d'amore
* Don Pasquale
* Lucia di Lammermoor
* Maria Stuarda
Richard Wagner
* Tristan und Isolde
* Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Giuseppe Verdi
* Luisa Miller
* Macbeth
* Rigoletto
* La traviata
* Un ballo in maschera
* Otello
* Falstaff
Jacques Offenbach
* The Tales of Hoffmann
Johann Strauss II
* Die Fledermaus
Georges Bizet
* Carmen Project
Franco Faccio
* Amleto
Arrigo Boito
* Nerone
Carl Millöcker
* Gasparone
Engelbert Humperdinck
* Hänsel und Gretel
Oscar Wilde
* De Profundis (Schauspiel)
Ruggero Leoncavallo
* Pagliacci
Giacomo Puccini
* Manon Lescaut
* La Bohème
* Madama Butterfly
Pietro Mascagni
* Cavalleria rusticana
Leoš Janáček
* Jenůfa
* Věc Makropulos
Claude Debussy
* Pelléas et Mélisande
Richard Strauss
* Der Rosenkavalier
Franz Lehár
* Die lustige Witwe
Alexander von Zemlinsky
* Der Zwerg
* Eine florentinische Tragödie
Arnold Schönberg
* Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Weill
* Cabaret Songs
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
* Il segreto di Susanna
Franz Schreker
* Irrelohe
Alban Berg
* Wozzeck
* Lulu
Emmerich Kálmán
* Gräfin Mariza
Eduard Künneke
* Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Igor Stravinsky
* The Rake’s Progress
Darius Milhaud
* Le pauvre matelot
Francis Poulenc
* La voix humaine
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
* Simplicius Simplicissimus
Gian Carlo Menotti
* The Telephone
Benjamin Britten
* Death in Venice
* A Midsummer Night's Dream
Astor Piazzolla
* María de Buenos Aires
Mitch Leigh/Dale Wasserman
* Man of La Mancha
Stephen Sondheim
* Sweeney Todd
* Into the Woods
Dieter Kaufmann
* Die Reise ins Paradies
* Dolores
Andrew Lloyd Webber
* Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Bruno Strobl
* Hier ist es schön
Kaija Saariaho
* L’amour de loin
Zesses Seglias
* To the Lighthouse
Sehyung Kim
* Consumnia