Claude Schnitzler

He directed the creation of Jean Prodromidès's Goya in Montpellier and Marseille; the French premiere of Britten's Owen Wingrave (at the Opéra du Rhin).

He directed Lucia di Lammermoor and Madame Butterfly in Rouen, The Tales of Hoffmann and Aida in Dublin, The Merry Widow in Toulouse, Tosca in Nancy, Fauré's Pénélope and Eugene Oneguin in Rennes, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in Marseille, Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba at the Wexford Festival Opera, Carmen at the Peking opera, Pénélope in Lausanne, Verdi's Requiem in Metz with the Orchestre national de Lorraine [fr].

More recently, he has conducted Die Fledermaus at the Welsh National Opera of Cardiff, Hoffman's La Vie parisienne, The tales of Hoffmann, Der Wildschütz, Carmen, Roméo et Juliette in Leipzig, where he is a permanent guest conductor, as well as Alfred Bruneau's Le Rêve with the Orchestre national de France, Adrienne Lecouvreur in Lausanne, La Périchole in Nancy and Montpellier, Chabrier's Gwendoline and The Flying Dutchman in Rennes, Carmen and Eine Nacht in Venedig at the Volksoper de Vienna, Ariadne auf Naxos in Nice, Swan Lake with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Other projects include Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue in Nice, Smetana's The Bartered Bride and Die Fledermaus at the Vienna State Opera, La Traviata in Metz, The Tales of Hoffmann in Rennes, The Flying Dutchman in Dijon and symphonic concerts, in particular with the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy.

At the Opéra du Rhin, he has directed numerous productions, the most recent of which are Offenbach's Barbe-Bleue, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle and Martinů's Ariane .