Patrick Kinmonth

Patrick Kinmonth is an internationally acclaimed director, also set and costume designer for opera, photography and dance. In 2008 Kinmonth made his opera-directing debut, a lauded staging of Madama Butterfly for Cologne Opera. Since then he has directed and designed numerous productions including Samson et Dalila at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Don Giovanni and Rigoletto at Theater Augsburg, Die Gezeichneten, voted Best Opera Production of the season at Cologne Opera, Daphne at Toulouse, Solaris at Cologne Opera, Gassmann’s L’Opera seria at La Monnaie, Brussels and La clemenza di Tito at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. To open the 2017-18 season at Cologne Opera, Kinmonth directs the seldom-heard Dresden version of Tannhäuser, conducted by François-Xavier Roth; he will return in the 2019-20 season for Tristan und Isolde with the same team. Current and future plans include returns to Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Opernhaus Zürich, American Ballet Theatre, plus debuts with Royal Danish Opera, Houston Ballet and Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville.

Kinmonth enjoys collaborating in a director/designer capacity with such artists as choreographer Fernando Melo, including A Guest House and Tending to Fall for Gothenburg Ballet, Fountain for Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich, Middle of Nowhere for Norddans, Sweden, Don Juan in Lucerne and together with Pontus Lidberg, Raymonda for Royal Swedish Opera. Recent and current dance creations include Jane Eyre with choreographer Cathy Marston for Northern Ballet, Kinder des Olymp with Fernando Melo for Lucerne and Don Quixote with Aaron S. Watkin for Semperoper Ballet, Dresden. In 2017-18 he designs Sleeping Beauty for Greek National Ballet choreographed by Pontus Lidberg and the world premiere of Snowblind for San Francisco Ballet, choreographed by Cathy Marston. The 2018-19 season includes his debuts with American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera and at Joffrey Ballet with Jane Eyre; in February 2019 he makes his debut at the Ballet de Opéra national de Paris directing and designing Les noces choreographed by Pontus Lidberg. In 2019-20 he returns to San Francisco Ballet to create a new work, Mrs Robinson, with Cathy Marston.