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Born in Austria, he trained in Salzburg and Vienna and has been working internationally as a choreographer and director since 2000.
Choreographic works since then include ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ (Opéra Bastille Paris), ‘Mitridate’ (Salzburg Festival), ‘Turandot’ (Cologne Opera), ‘Pentesilea’ (Semperoper Dresden), ‘Aida’ (Opera La Monnaie / De Munt Brussels) and ‘La Forza del Destino’ (National Opera Amsterdam, Royal Opera House London).
He has worked with Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper Berlin on productions including ‘Kiss me, Kate’, Monteverdi’s ‘Orpheus’, ‘Ball im Savoy’, ‘Die schöne Helena’, ‘West Side Story’, where he also acted as co-director, ‘Die Perlen der Kleopatra’, ‘Anatevka’, ‘Candide’, ‘The Bassarids’, ‘Frühlingsstürme’, the ‘All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue’ and most recently the new production of ‘Chicago’.
Other joint projects have taken Otto Pichler to the Glyndebourne Festival (‘Saul’), the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (‘Der Feurige Engel’, ‘Die Fledermaus’), the Frankfurt Opera (‘Carmen’), the Royal Opera House in London (‘The Nose’), Opera Dijon (‘Les Boréades’), Festival D’Aix-en-Provence (‘The Golden Cockerel’), again to the Opéra Bastille Paris (‘Prince Igor’, ‘Les Brigands’), to Amsterstam (‘Turandot’) and to the Salzburg Festival (‘Orphée aux enfers’), where he made his debut in 2006 with ‘Mitridate, re di Ponto’ (dir: Günter Krämer).
In 2006, Otto Pichler made his directorial debut with ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, followed by ‘Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt’,’Jekyll & Hyde’ and ‘Hello Dolly’. His production of ‘Csardasfürstin’ was shown as a co-production at the Augsburg Theatre and the Magdeburg Theatre. In 2021, he directed ‘Märchen im Grand Hotel’ at the Nuremberg Opera and ‘Die Lustige Witwe’ at the Landestheater Detmold. Most recently, ‘Frau Luna’ premiered at the Tiroler Landestheater.
