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