Barrie Kosky

Quick Facts

Full Name	Barrie Kosky
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 18, 1967(1967-02-18)
Age	57
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Aquarius

Barrie Kosky Biography

Barrie Kosky is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on February 18, 1967 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Barrie Kosky (born 18 February 1967) is an Australian director of opera and theatre.

In 1996, he was the director of Nabucco (recorded in DVD format from ABC Television.) as well as The Flying Dutchman for Opera Australia the work that was re-staged on stage in 2006. Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, Germany. In the year 1996 Kosky became director for The Adelaide Festival, at 29 years of age, the youngest person chosen for the position. After his appointment, the documentary Kosky in Paradise looked at the creative and imaginative motivations of Kosky.

From 2001 to 2005 Kosky was co-director of the Schauspielhaus Wien in Vienna. There he directed Euripides’ Medea with the Australian actress Melita Jurisic; the production was nominated for the Nestroy Theatre Prize. He also directed there Poppea, in which he combined Monteverdi’s music with songs by Cole Porter,The Tales of Hoffmann, Macbeth in an all-female version, and Boulevard Delirium with Paul Capsis which toured around the world for several seasons, including Australia where it won a 2006 Helpmann Award. His staging of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Innsbrucker Festwochen für Alte Musik under the musical direction of René Jacobs was also shown at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden; that production was broadcast on German TV by RBB/arte. Also in 2005, Kosky directed Wagner’s Lohengrin for the Vienna State Opera.

Following several productions in the past at the Komische Oper Berlin, including Le Grand Macabre (2003), The Marriage of Figaro (2005), Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and Kiss Me, Kate (2007) (broadcast on German TV 3sat in 2008), Rigoletto (2009) and Rusalka (2011), Kosky has been appointed Chief Director at the Komische Oper commencing in the 2012/2013 season. He has since presented some rarely staged operettas there, like Paul Abraham’s Ball im Savoy and Oscar Straus’s Die Perlen der Cleopatra [de] .

The Victorian State Opera he directed in 1991 The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. In 1993, he directed season-opening of Larry Sitsky’s operetta The Golem for Opera Australia and was also made available by ABC Classics. In 1993, he also was the director of Goethe’s Faust I and II for the Melbourne Theatre Company, and Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex for Opera Queensland.

Barrie Kosky Net Worth

Barrie Kosky is one of the richest Director from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barrie Kosky 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Barrie Kosky was born and raised in Melbourne and is the grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Europe. Kosky attended Melbourne Grammar School where he played in Brecht’s play The Resurrected Rising of the Arturo Ui in 1981. He also appeared in Shakespeare’s Othello at the age of 1982. He also then directed his first production. Alongside other well-known Australian performers, the artist worked for his own St Martins Youth Arts Centre. He graduated in 1985 and began studying Piano and music History from Melbourne’s University of Melbourne.

In 1989, Kosky was the director of Australian premier of Michael Tippett’s The Knot Garden (reduced version) at the Melbourne Spoleto Festival. In 1990, he founded his own theatre, the Gilgul Theatre which staged The Exile Trilogy in 1993 (The Dybbuk, Es Brent, Levad) at the Belvoir St Theatre; Kosky was the artistic director of Gilgul Theatre until 1997. Other notable productions staged by The Gilgul Theatre were The Wilderness Room as well as a stage adaptation to The Operated Jew.

In 1997 he directed Molière’s Tartuffe in Christopher Hampton’s translation at the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). In 1998 he directed Mourning Becomes Electra for the STC, and King Lear for the Bell Shakespeare company’s touring production. In 1999 Kosky directed Alban Berg’s Wozzeck for the Sydney Opera House. In 2000, Kosky directed Ted Hughes’ adaption of Seneca’s Oedipus at the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Kosky’s production of Shostakovich’s opera The Nose in a new English-language version by David Pountney for The Royal Opera, Opera Australia and the Komische Oper Berlin premiered in 2016 at the Royal Opera House in London, Kosky’s debut at that house, and in 2018 at the Sydney Opera House and in Berlin. He returned to The Royal Opera in 2018 to present a controversial staging of Bizet’s Carmen that was first staged at Opera Frankfurt in June 2017.

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Barrie Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Barrie Kosky celebrates birthday on February 18 of every year.