Thaddeus Strassberger (born 1976) is an American, Italian and Cherokee Nation citizen who works as an opera director and scenic, costume, lighting and video designer in over fifteen countries around the world.
He also worked as both director and scenic designer for Puccini's Turandot at Theater Augsburg and Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet at the Washington National Opera conducted by Plácido Domingo.
[13] His Royal Opera House Covent Garden production of I due Foscari starring Plácido Domingo, Maria Agresta, and Francesco Meli and conductor by Antonio Pappano is available on DVD.
[14] It was a co-production with Los Angeles Opera, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, and Theater an der Wien.
[16] Strassberger made his debut at the NCPA Beijing in August 2019 with the Asian premiere of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.
Since 2011, he has created six new productions for the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, including: La fanciulla del West, Pique Dame, The Tales of Hoffmann, Un Ballo in Maschera, Werther and Boris Godunov.
The event, produced by Balich Wonder Studio and Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority was attended by over 300,000 people and was broadcast live on national television.
That's no different from an American company saying you have to rub two sticks together to get the production on because our NEA budget got cut this year.In the June 2012 issue of the British magazine Opera which examined recent repertoire trends which reveal a move towards the rare and unusual, Strassberger makes the following observation regarding the staging of some of them: I love these works and they give me the freedom to turn up as a director and put them on stage without having to un-engineer what people thought they were going to be.
In 2006, he joined the faculty of the International Vocal Arts Institute (IIVA) in Tel Aviv where he directed the school's opera productions for two years.