Christof Nel

His works at Oper Frankfurt included Puccini's Madama Butterfly in 2001, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 2003 and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo in 2011.

[1] His first plays were produced at the Theater Köln, including the first performance in Germany of Occupations (Roter Sonntag in Turin) by Trevor Griffiths in 1973.

[1] Nel collaborated in interdisciplinary and experimental work with Heiner Goebbels and William Forsythe at the Theater am Turm [de] Frankfurt.

[8] He staged Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss,[8] and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo in 2011.

[8][9] Nel directed world premieres, of Rolf Riehm's Das Schweigen der Sirenen at the Staatstheater Stuttgart in 1994, and of Mauricio Kagel's TheaterKonzert at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duisburg,[8] as part of the 2003 Ruhrtriennale.