Vienna State Opera
The opera house was the first major building on the Vienna Ringstrasse commissioned by the Viennese "city expansion fund". Work commenced on the house in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style by the renowned Czech architect and contractor Josef Hlávka.
Tobias Hoheisel
At Glyndebourne he designed productions of Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová", "The Makropulos Affair" and "Jenůfa", as well as Benjamin Britten's "Death in Venice" and Smetana's "The Bartered Bride". He has designed productions for the English National Opera, The Royal Opera (Hans Werner Henze's "Boulevard Solitude" won the 2001 Laurence Olivier Award for best opera production), Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Scottish Opera. He has designed for many UK theatre companies including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company ("Julius Caesar", "Richard III"), the Almeida ("Ivanov", with Ralph Fiennes) and the Royal Court. He has created productions at the Vienna State Opera, Burgtheater (including the world premiere of Peter Handke's "The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other"), Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (the German premiere of Yasmina Reza's "'Art'"), Cologne Opera, Nationale Reisopera in Enschede, Paris Opera, Gran Teatro Liceu, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and New York City Opera, as well as the festivals at Drottningholm, Graz, Vienna, Munich, Glimmerglass, Florence and Santa Fe.