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Carlos
Wagner
was
born and brought up in Caracas, Venezuela.
He
studied fine arts and dance in Barcelona, Spain and München, Germany.
At
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, he completed a
three-year acting diploma.
Recent
productions include:
Don
Giovanni by W.A. Mozart (Opera of Wiesbaden), Powder
her Face by Tom Adès (The Royal Opera House
in London), Die Glückliche Hand by A. Schönberg,
as part of the trilogy "Moderne Menschen" (Oper Leipzig Germany), The
Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky (Angers Nantes Opéra,
France), Un Ballo
in Maschera by
G. Verdi (Opéra National de Bordeaux, France), Tea a
Mirror
of Soul
by Tan Dun (Neue
Oper Wien in Vienna),
Gènesi 3.0 a
new music theatre piece (the Teatre Romea in Barcelona), Eine
Florentinische Tragödie by A. Zemlinsky
(Opéra National de Lorraine, France), La
Bohème by G. Puccini (Zomeropera Alden
Biesen, Belgium), A double-Salomé: the libretto by Oscar
Wilde treated by R. Strauss and A. Mariotte on
alternate evenings (Opéra
de
Montpellier France),
Juana world
première by E. Palomar and R. Simpson (Opera
Halle Germany &
Liceu, Festival de Butxaca Barcelona), Orfeo a
contemporary re-working of Monteverdis Opera by Austrian composer
Christoph Cech (Neue
Oper Wien Austria, Nederlands KamerOper Festival Zwolle), The
Phantom Palace world
première by H. Paredes (The Festival of Arts and Ideas
Connecticut/ Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart), Tosca
by G. Puccini (Nationale Reisopera Holland),
Powder her Face by
Thomas Adès (de Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp/Ghent), The
Bear by W.Walton (The Opera Group
- Buxton
Festival), The Lighthouse by P.M. Davies (Neue Oper Wien),
La Ronde by A. Schnitzler (RADA, London), The
Rape of Lucretia by B. Britten (de Vlaamse Opera,
Antwerp/Ghent), Gli Equivoci Nel Sembiante by A. Scarlatti (Musica
nel Chiostro Batignano), Cavalleria
Rusticana by
P. Mascagni and Pagliacci
by R. Leoncavallo (Surrey Opera). He was also
commissioned to devise and direct: Had I a Song a
retrospective on the life of Ivor Gurney - (Muziektheater Transparant
Antwerp), Orpheus Frequency and Syrinx (ENO
Studio London) and Between Two Worlds - a
retrospective on the life of E.W. Korngold - (Covent Garden
Festival/Muziektheater Transparant ). He also directed Wozzek
by A.Berg in a masterclass on directing opera with Ruth Berghaus
in Berlin.
Being
fluent in German, Italian, Spanish, French and English he has also
been commissioned to write singing translations
of Tristan und Isolde by R. Wagner and Mefistofele by
A. Boito for English National Opera.
Future
events include: "Salome"
by Richard Strauss The National Opera of Korea October
2008, Revival
of "The
Rape of Lucretia" by B. Britten de Vlaamse Opera,
Antwerp/Ghent: November 2008 "Los
sobrinos
del Capitán Grant" Zarzuela
by M. F. Caballero for Opera National de Lorraine,
Nancy: January 2009. "La
Cabeza
del Bautista" world
première by Enric Palomar for the Gran Teatre del Liceu in
Barcelona, Spain: April 2009
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