Amir Hosseinpour

Born in Iran, he founded his own company, the Amir Hosseinpour Dance Company, in 1992; it’s repertoire includes Fantasie Nocturne (Turtle Key Arts Centre, London) & Is That All There Is (Almeida Theatre & La Mama, New York).

As a choreographer: Philip Glass’s World premiere of Alice (Co-choreographed with Jonathan Lunn) winner of the Czech Crystal – Recordings of Stage Work at the Golden Prague Awards 2023), Pierrot Lunaire (Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg), The Exterminating Angel (Royal Opera, The Met, Salzburger Festspiele, Royal Opera Copenhagen), Bomarzo (Teatro Real), Akhnaten (Opera Vlaanderen), William Tell (Welsh National Opera, Polish National Opera, Grand Theatre Geneva), L’Enfant et  Les Sortileges (Opera National de Paris), Spurren Der Verirrten, a new opera by Philip Glass (Linz),  Platee, Cinderella (Landestheater Niederbayern), Les Troyens, La Juive, Castor Et Pollux , Tannhauser, Gotterdammerung, Hier, Alice, Alceste (Netherlands Opera), Maria De Buenas Aires (Sao Carlos, Lisbon), Die Florentiner Intermedian (Saarbrucken) La Juive (Paris Opera), Tannhauser (Baden, Baden),  Zoroastre (Opera Comique and Drottningholm), Julius Caesar (Bayerische Staatsoper) Les Troyens (La Scala) and for television, Classic Widows (South Bank Show, LWT) and Trouble In Tahiti (BBC – winner of Vienna Television Award 2002) La Poussiere De L’Amour (ARTE, Germany)  The Midsummer Marriage (Munich), The Flying Dutchman (Opera de Lille), Petrushka (Bavarian State Ballet –Munich), Der Goldene  Hahn (Bregenz Festival)

As a director La Traviata (Landestheater Niederbayern), Orlando Paldino, Sokrates (Innsbruck/Berlin), Hotel De Pekin (Nationale Reisopera), co-directed with Nigel Lowery and choreographed new productions of Platée (Netherlands Opera), The Soldier’s Tale ( Barcelona Festival), L’Italiana In Algeri (Berlin Staatsoper), Rinaldo (Opera Montpellier / Insbruck / Berlin Staatsoper – Opernwelt Best Production), Orphee Et Eurydice (Bayerische Staatsoper), Les Paladins (Theater Basel), Il Barbiere Di Sivilia (Royal Opera House).