Otto Pichler comes from Austria, and trained in Salzburg and Vienna. Since 2000 he has worked internationally both as a choreographer and as a director.
Productions on which he has worked as a choreographer include Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Paris Opéra, Turandot at the Cologne Opera, Penthesilea at the Semperoper Dresden, Aida at La Monnaie in Brussels and La forza del destino at the Dutch National Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
With the director Barrie Kosky he has worked on numerous productions at the Komische Oper Berlin including Kiss Me, Kate, L’Orfeo, Ball im Savoy, La Belle Hélène, West Side Story (a production for which he was also co-director), Die Perlen der Cleopatra, Fiddler on the Roof (Anatevka), Candide, The Bassarids, Frühlingsstürme, The All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue and most recently a new production of Chicago.
Other collaborations with Barrie Kosky have taken him to Glyndebourne Festival (Saul), the Bavarian State Opera (The Fiery Angel, Die Fledermaus), the Frankfurt Opera (Carmen), the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (The Nose), to Dijon (Les Boréades), the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (The Golden Cockerel), the Paris Opéra (Prince Igor, Les Brigands), the Dutch National Opera (Turandot) and in 2019 for Orphée aux enfers to the Salzburg Festival, where he had previously made an acclaimed debut in 2006 with Mitridate, directed by Günter Krämer.
In 2006 Otto Pichler made his directing debut with Jesus Christ Superstar, followed by Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt, Jekyll & Hyde and Hello, Dolly. His production of Die Csárdásfürstin was shown as a co-production between Theater Augsburg and Theater Magdeburg. He has also directed Märchen im Grand Hotel at the Nuremberg State Theatre, Die lustige Witwe at the Landestheater Detmold and Frau Luna at the Tyrolean State Theatre.
His recent projects include choreography for Iolanta at the Vienna State Opera in spring 2025.
