Ramses Sigl

From 1998 to 2012 the choreographer Ramses Sigl was director of dance on the musical theatre course at the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy. There he choreographed productions including Bernstein’s On the Town, Weill’s Street Scene and Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Company, as well as Cavalli’s La Didone, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and his first production with Claus Guth, of Purcell’s King Arthur. Since then he and Guth have enjoyed a longstanding working partnership, with collaborations including Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival (2006—9), Messiah, L’incoronazione di Poppea and Saul at the Theater an der Wien, Der Rosenkavalier, Die lustige Witwe and Dialogues des Carmélites in Frankfurt, Helmut Oehring’s AscheMOND and Martinů’s Juliette at the Berlin State Opera, Rodelinda in Madrid, La clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne and Georg Friedrich Haas’s Bluthaus and Handel’s Semele at the Bavarian State Opera.

Among the other directors with whom Ramses Sigl works on a regular basis is Jens-Daniel Herzog, from whom he has choreographed productions including Les Pêcheurs de perles and Rinaldo in Zurich, Giulio Cesare in Dresden, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Salzburg Easter Festival and in Dresden, Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival, Der fliegende Holländer and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole in Dortmund, Iain Bell’s A Harlot’s Progress at the Theater an der Wien, War and Peace, Le nozze di Figaro, L’Orfeo and the world premiere of Anno Schreier’s Turing in Nuremburg, and, in spoken theatre, Schnitzler’s Der einsame Weg and Schiller’s Turandot at the Residenztheater in Munich.

He has also worked with Dieter Dorn (Orfeo ed Euridice at the Salzburg Festival), Aron Stiehl (most recently Salome in Leipzig), August Everding, Balázs Kovalik, David Alden, Gil Mehmert and others. In 2022 he returned to the Salzburg Festival to choreograph Rolando Villazón’s production of Il barbiere di Siviglia.

For the Schauburg in Munich Sigl has directed and choreographed his own productions, such as Welcome to My World and Klasse, Klasse, and also initiated a series of AIDS benefit performances, rosablassblaud, for AIDS relief. Ramses Sigl has choreographed numerous musicals and theatre productions at Munich’s Akademietheatre, as well as two of his own dance theatre works: Von da nach da and Akte Romeo und Julia. He has also created choreography for productions at the theatres in Düsseldorf, Bochum and Mannheim, and for film and television (including for Caroline Link’s Im Winter ein Jahr).