{"id":6437,"date":"2026-04-14T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/artista\/guillermo-amaya\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:53:10","slug":"guillermo-amaya","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/en\/artista\/guillermo-amaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Amaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guillermo Amaya<\/strong> is a stage director, dramaturg and playwright. His work emerges from the interplay between music, text and space, and from his extensive experience in the German <em>Musiktheater<\/em> tradition. For fourteen years, he developed his professional career in Germany as <em>Oberspielleiter<\/em> and resident stage director at the Theater f\u00fcr Niedersachsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His career has taken him across Germany, Spain, Austria and Peru, encompassing a repertoire that ranges from Monteverdi, Purcell and Mozart to Donizetti, Offenbach, Bernstein, Prokofiev and Wagner, alongside operetta, musical theatre and contemporary works. His productions have been presented at venues including the Teatro Real, Teatro de la Maestranza, Teatro Campoamor, Heidelberg Opera, Teatro Arriaga, Osnabr\u00fcck Opera, the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima and the San Sebasti\u00e1n Musical Fortnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Amaya, dramaturgy, adaptation and staging form part of a single creative process. He has created Spanish-language versions of works by various composers, including Pauline Viardot\u2019s <em>Cendrillon<\/em> and Offenbach\u2019s <em>La P\u00e9richole<\/em>. His production of Donizetti\u2019s <em>Adelia<\/em> was recognised by <em>Der Opernfreund<\/em> as a discovery of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has also written and directed theatre, and in 2024 published <em>C\u00f3mo se viene la muerte<\/em> (Ediciones Ant\u00edgona).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wagner has occupied a prominent place in his recent work: <em>Lohengrin<\/em>, originally staged for \u00d3pera de Oviedo and now being revived at \u00d3pera de Tenerife, and <em>Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em>, which he will stage for ABAO at Bilbao\u2019s Palacio Euskalduna in January 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7257,"template":"","class_list":["post-6437","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guillermo Amaya - ABAO-OLBE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/en\/artista\/guillermo-amaya\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guillermo Amaya - ABAO-OLBE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guillermo Amaya is a stage director, dramaturg and playwright. 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