Max Hoehn

British-Swiss opera director Max Hoehn staging productions across Europe.

27/01/2026

So dankbar für diese besondere Premiere und die wunderbare Zusammenarbeit mit Friedrich Eggert, und unserem großartigen Dirigenten – sowie der gesamten Opernschule. 💛

“eine exzeptionelle Aufführung” Ludwigsberger Kreiszeitung

“Die alte Oper kann brandaktuell sein” Stuttgarter Zeitung

“Diese sehenswerte Production der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart bringt Monteverdis Meisterwerk in der subtilen Regie von Max Hoehn in spannender Weise auf die Bühne“
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Weitere Aufführungen bis 7. Februar

Fotos: Christoph Kalscheuer

15/01/2026

Lighting Rehearsal with Fritz Eggert

L’incoronazione di Poppea
Opernschule der HMDK Stuttgart & Wilhelma Theater
Premiere: 25.01.2026

04/01/2026

Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea
Opernschule der HMDK Stuttgart & Wilhelma Theater
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PREMIERE - Sonntag 25.01.2026

20/12/2025

Martin Kettle from The Guardian selects our production of Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen and as one of his highlights of 2025! I'll never forget this show and the process of putting it together with the hardest-working cast and crew imaginable.

Stage Director: Max Hoehn
Conductor: Hannah von Wiehler
Set & Costume Designer: Isabella van Braekel
Lighting Designer: Luca Panetta
Animator: Amber Cooper-Davies
Arranger: Leon Haxby
Assistant Conductor: Lucia Švecová
Répétiteur / Assistant Conductor: Alex Norton
Producer: Helene Mathiesen
Production Manager: Carrie Croft
Production Manager: Banu Atca
Stage Manager: Cora Frank
Deputy Stage Manager: Vendy Pospisilova
Costume Supervisor: Katie Higgins
Wardrobe Assistant: Pasha Taylor-Hanson
Production Photography: Craig Fuller

CAST
Armgard: Hannah O'Brien / Alice Usher
Hedwig: Katie Stevenson / Mae Heydorn
Franz: Sam Utley
Conrad von Wenckheim: Samuel Lom / Owain Gwynfryn
Gottfried: Dominic Felts / Harrison Gration

Chorus: Emily Rooke, Anusha Merrin, Hannah Morley, Cicely-Yishuo Hé, Alexander White, Lars Fischer, Chris Murphy, Maximilian Catalano

Orchestra: Flora Fontanelli, Lorenzo Narici, Noemi Foschi, Corinna Boylan, Veronika Lemishenko, Pedro Lopez Campos, Holly Redshaw

Gothic Opera: Alice Usher, Béatrice de Larragoïti, Charlotte Osborn (Directors) Helene Mathiesen (Producer)

27/11/2025

Opera and animation can be a brilliant match when the design unlocks the imaginative power of the music. Working with animator and illustrator has taken us on a journey through German romantic opera from The Flying Dutchman to Die Rheinnixen last month . Next up is a new production of Wagner's Tannhäuser for the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon. Opening 23rd April 2026.

07/11/2025

Bauprobe @ Wilhelma Theater, Stuttgart

L’incoronazione di Poppea
Opernschule HMDK Stuttgart

05/11/2025

Our production of Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen in London is making waves even in the French press.

"la direction d’acteur est impeccable", "une esthétique expressionniste parfaitement en accord avec le lieu. Le ballet des elfes est ainsi le prétexte à un réjouissant dessin animé en noir et blanc" **** Forum Opéra

Photography by Craig Fuller

31/10/2025

A little bit of history was made last night. Die Rheinnixen, Offenbach's little-known contribution to German romantic opera, received its first-ever UK staging last night at the Battersea Arts Centre in South London. Very proud of an extremely hard-working cast, conductor, musicians, design team and crew who have worked miracles over the last few days to make it all happen.

Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen

A Gothic Opera Production

Conductor: Hannah von Wiehler

Cast: Hannah O'Brien, Alice Usher, Katie Stevenson, Mae Heydorn, Sam Utley, Samuel Lom, Owain Gwynfryn, Dominic Felts, Harrison Gration, Emily Rooke, Anusha Merrin, Hannah Morley, Cicely Yishuo Hé, Lars Fischer, Alexander White, Maximilian Catalano, Chris Murphy

Directed by Max Hoehn
Set and Costume Design by Isabella van Braeckel
Lighting Design by Luca Panetta
Animation by Amber Cooper-Davies

Gothic Opera: Béatrice de Larragoïti, Alice Usher, Charlotte Osborn

Producer: Helene Mathiesen

Photo by Craig Fuller

19/10/2025

In the last days of Stalin’s reign, a mysterious phone call from the Kremlin launches a desperate search for a missing pianist. Inspired by the life of the pianist Maria Yudina, this new chamber opera explores the role of music in people’s lives during one of the darkest periods of Soviet history.

This was my first full libretto and a project born during the pandemic that has now culminated in this new album release by Birmingham Record Company.

Thank you Joe Cutler for going on this adventure with me and giving it your all to create this supremely atmospheric score. Simon Hall at RBC has done a brilliant job editing the album and making the piece into a unique 21st-century take on the radio opera genre.

We were so lucky to have a cast of British contemporary music giants alongside BCMG and Sian Edwards with Xenia Pestova Bennett's piano fragments providing an essential dramatic thread through the piece.

And finally thank you to all the trusts, foundations and sponsors who have made this project possible in such a difficult climate.

Out on 14th November on all streaming platforms

Give it a listen. I hear we featured on Antena 2 in Portugal today!
Look forward to sharing extracts soon.

Sonata for Broken Fingers
Music: Joe Cutler
Libretto: Max Hoehn

Cast:
Maximova: Claire Booth
Leonid: James Cleverton
Denisova & Public Prosecutor: Lucy Schaufer
Gleb: Christopher Lemmings
Stalin: Stephen Richardson

Conductor: Sian Edwards
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Piano Fragments: Xenia Pestova Bennett

Musical Assistance: Peter Davies
Engineering and Postproduction: Simon Hall

Supported by Swiss Cultural Fund UK, Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund, Radcliffe Trust, Vaughan Williams Foundation, the Marchus Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation, Francis Routh Trust, Golsoncott Foundation and the ADM Faculty Research Investment Scheme at Birmingham City University

18/10/2025

Staging performances outside of a conventional theatre can be the most exciting adventure. I learnt that working with Graham Vick's Birmingham Opera Company a decade ago and now I'm in one of South London's most interesting venues: the Battersea Arts Centre directing Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen for . The Grand Hall was devastated by a fire in 2015, but did a fantastic job with the restoration. We open on the 30th October and there are further performances on the 31st, 1st and 2nd November.

Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen (UK Stage Premiere)

Directed by
Designed by Isabella Van Braeckel
Lighting by .luca.panetta
Animation by

Cast:
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Conducted by Hannah von Wiehler
Orchestral Arrangement by Leon Haxby - Composer

01/10/2025

Wagner: Tannhäuser
New Production of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

Director:
Conductor: Graeme Jenkins

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