Chronology
"Mr. Strassberger directed intimate moments and crowd scenes with equal skill, making smooth segues from the personal into the political...Aided by skillful lighting, the director created some striking tableaux that looked like Old Master paintings, and his choreographic style with crowds made the final massacre, with cassocked men slitting the throats of women, into a horrific dance of death."
The Wall Street Journal - Heidi Waleson, THE HUGUENOTS
FUTURE
La Traviata - Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
Aida - Oper im Steinbruch
Silent Light - National Sawdust, New York City
La Fanciulla del West - NCPA Beijing
Faust - To be announced
Benvenuto Cellini - To be announced
Boris Godunov - To be announced
2022 - 2023
Nabucco - Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Boris Godunov - Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Austria
Salome - Tulsa Opera, USA
2021
Turandot - Oper im Steinbruch, Sankt Margarthen
Werther - Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck
Riyadh Season Opening Parade - Creative Director - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
A Greek Passion (repertoire) (Martinů - 1957) Ekaterinburg State Opera
The Passenger (repertoire) (Mieczysław Weinberg - 1968) Ekaterinburg State Opera / Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Satyagraha (repertoire) Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Russia
2019
Nabucco - Palau de las Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia
La Fanciulla del West - NCPA Beijing
Silent Light - a new work with Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek - Banff Centre
Le nozze di Figaro (revival) Den Norske Opera
La Clemenza di Tito - LA Opera
A Greek Passion (repertoire) (Martinů - 1957) Ekaterinburg State Opera
The Passenger (repertoire) (Mieczysław Weinberg - 1968) Ekaterinburg State Opera / Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Satyagraha (repertoire) Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Russia
2018
Carmen Danish National Opera
JFK (David T. Little/Royce Vavrek - 2016) L'opera de Montreal
A Greek Passion (Martinů - 1957) Ekaterinburg State Opera
Demon (Anton Rubinstein - 1875) Bard Summerscape
The Passenger (repertoire) (Mieczysław Weinberg - 1968) Ekaterinburg State Opera / Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Satyagraha (repertoire) Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Russia
2017
Le Nozze di Figaro - Den Norske Opera
Un Ballo in Maschera - Tiroler Landestheater
Les contes d'Hoffmann - Tiroler Landestheater
The Passenger (repertoire) (Mieczysław Weinberg - 1968) Ekaterinburg State Opera / Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Satyagraha (repertoire) Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Russia
2016
Rigoletto - Staatstheater Braunschweig
The Passenger - Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Russia
JFK - Fort Worth Opera
Satyagraha (repertoire) Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera, Russia
2015
The Wreckers - Bard Summerscape
Pique Dame - Tiroler Landestheater
Hamlet - Fort Worth Opera
Andrea Chenier - Staatstheater Braunschweig
2014
Don Giovanni - Norwegian National Opera
Nabucco - Florida Grand Opear
Nabucco - L'opera de Montreal
Satyagraha - Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera
I due Foscari - Theater and der Wien / Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Glare - Royal Opera House Covent Garden
2013
The Rape of Lucretia - Norwegian National Opera
I due Foscari - Palau de las Arts, Valencia
Hamlet - Minnesota Opera
The Oresteia - Bard Summerscape
Le nozze di Figaro - Norwegian National Opera
Nabucco - Opera Company of Philadelphia
The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe - Staatstheater Braunschweig
2012
I due Foscari -Los Angeles Opera
Nabucco - Minnesota Opera
Le roi malgré lui - Wexford Festival Opera / Bard Summerscape
Nabucco - Washington National Opera
2011
The Rape of Lucretia - Norwegian National Opera
La fanciulla del West - Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
2010
Hamlet -Washington National Opera
Turandot - Theater Augsburg
Der ferne Klang -Bard Summerscape Opera
Fidelio - Opera Boston
2009
Les Huguenots - Bard Summerscape
2008
La fanciulla del West - L'opera de Montreal
Ariadne auf Naxos - Wolf Trap Opera
La Traviata - Arizona Opera
Die Zauberflote - Arizona Opera
2007
Orfeo ed Euridice - Theater Augsburg
Aida - Lyric Opera of Kansas City
La gazzetta - Rossini in Wildbad
La cenerentola - Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
2006
Die Zauberflote -Utah Opera
Hamlet - Lyric Opera of Kansas City
La cenerentola - Opera Ireland
2005
Rigoletto - Opera Colorado