Evgeny Titov was born in Kazakhstan, studied acting at the theatre academy in St Petersburg and worked for several years as an actor, before studying at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. His productions there included Copi’s La Tour de la défense (performed under the title Das Schlangennest) — with a guest performance at the Vienna Burgtheater — and a production of Gogol’s Marriage, which was invited to the Körber Young Directors Studio at Hamburg’s Thalia Theater in 2016. Since then, his engagements have taken him to theatres including the Dresden State Theatre, the Landestheater Linz, the Wiesbaden State Theatre, the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf, the Residenztheater in Munich and the Salzburg Festival, where in 2019 he directed Gorky’s Summerfolk. Many of Evgeny Titov’s theatre productions have received great acclaim from the press.
Since Evgeny Titov opened the 2021/22 season at the Komische Oper Berlin with an acclaimed production of Enescu’s Oedipe, he has been regularly invited to work at internationally renowned opera houses. At the Zurich Opera House, he made his debut with the much-admired Swiss premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence, followed by Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. At the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, he has staged Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg he has directed Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. In the 2024/25 season he directed Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Graz Opera, Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Semperoper Dresden, Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at the Vienna State Opera. Engagements following his Salzburg opera debut with Peter Eötvös’s Three Sisters will include a return to the Komische Oper Berlin, and his debuts at the Opéra-Comique in Paris and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
