Achim Freyer

Biography

Achim Freyer is a German stage director, set designer and painter. A protégé of Bertolt Brecht, Freyer has become one of the world’s leading opera directors, working throughout Europe and, since 2002, in the United States, principally with the Los Angeles Opera. Since 1992, Freyer has developed a number of productions featuring his own troupe of performers, known as the Freyer Ensemble.

Directed

1. Metamorphosen (1992) — Director
2. Der Freischütz (1981) — Director
3. Don Giovanni. Teatro La Fenice (1996) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera (1986) — Himself