Andreas Homoki was born in Germany in 1960 as the son of a Hungarian family of musicians and studied school music and German studies in Berlin (West). In 1987 he went to the Cologne Opera as an assistant director and stage manager, where he remained until 1993. From 1988 to 1992 he was also a lecturer for stage instruction at the opera school of the Cologne University of Music. It was here that his first own productions were created. In 1992 his first guest production took him to Geneva, where his interpretation of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" received international attention. The production, which was later also shown at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, received the French Critics' Prize of the Year in 1994. From 1993 to 2002 Andreas Homoki worked as a freelance opera director and staged productions in Cologne, Hamburg, Geneva, Lyon, Leipzig, Basel, Berlin, Amsterdam and Munich, among others. As early as 1996 he made his debut at the Komische Oper Berlin with "Falstaff", followed by "The Love for Three Oranges" (1998) and in 2000 "The Merry Widow". In 2002 Andreas Homoki was appointed chief director of the Komische Oper Berlin as successor to Harry Kupfer, and in 2004 he became its artistic director. In addition to his directing work at the Komische Oper Berlin, he staged productions at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Semperoper Dresden and the Hamburg State Opera, among others. In July 2012, under the musical direction of William Christie, he staged "David et Jonathas" by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the Festival in Aix-en-Provence – a production that was later also shown in Edinburgh, Paris and New York, among other places. From 2012 to 2025 Andreas Homoki was artistic director of the Zurich Opera House, where he staged productions including "The Flying Dutchman" (co-production with La Scala in Milan and the Norwegian National Opera Oslo), "Fidelio", "Juliette", "Lohengrin" (co-production with the Vienna State Opera), "Luisa Miller" (Hamburg State Opera), "Wozzeck", "My Fair Lady" (Komische Oper Berlin), "I puritani", "Medée", "Lunea" (named "World Premiere of the Year 2017/18" by the magazine Opernwelt), "Iphigénie en Tauride", "Nabucco", "Simon Boccanegra", "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", "Salome", the "Ring des Nibelungen" and "Carmen". Andreas Homoki has been a member of the Academy of the Arts Berlin since 1999.
