Andy Sommer

Career Overview

Andy Sommer has 62 screen credits in a career dating back to 2000. Signature works include Die Macht des Rings, Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024, Adam's Passion. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

62

Known For

• 

  Die Macht des Rings
• 

  Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024
• 

  Adam's Passion
• 

  Parsifal
• Glenn Gould Lovers
• 

  Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna

Frequent Collaborators

• Andreas Schager (2 collaborations)
• Marina Frenk (1 collaborations)
• Valentin Schwarz (1 collaborations)
• Armin Trösch (1 collaborations)
• Barrie Kosky (1 collaborations)
• Camilla Nylund (1 collaborations)
• Eva Rieger (1 collaborations)
• Friederike Wißmann (1 collaborations)
• Steffen Vogt (1 collaborations)
• Andreas Homoki (1 collaborations)

Credits

• writing (1 credits)

  • Glenn Gould Lovers

    writer

    writing
    2026

• directing (57 credits)

  • Glenn Gould Lovers

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Die Macht des Rings

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Mozart Davide Penitente

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Oh la la, Alagna ! De la Sicile à Little Italy

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Wagner's Ring Without Words Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

    director

    directing
    2023
  • ​Carmen (Chorégies d'Orange 2023)

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Prokofiev: War and Peace

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Liszt's Piano Concerto no. 2 with Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Richard Wagner: Die Walküre @ Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Martha Argerich & Maria João Pires Play Mozart Victoria Hall - Geneva

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Renaud Capuçon - Un violon sans frontières

    director

    directing
    2021
  • La Bayadere

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Beethoven Reloaded

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Betrothal in a Monastery

    director

    directing
    2019
  • Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / The Nutcracker

    director

    directing
    2018
  • Janáček: From the House of the Dead

    director

    directing
    2018
  • Tristan und Isolde

    director

    directing
    2018
  • Lulu

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Carmen (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence)

    director

    directing
    2017
  • The Sleeping Beauty

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Jonas Kaufmann: Dolce Vita

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Pelléas et Mélisande - Opernhaus Zürich

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Adam's Passion

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Parsifal

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Lang Lang - Live in Versailles

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Roberto Alagna - Ma vie est un opéra

    director

    directing
    2014
  • Carmen (Arena di Verona)

    director

    directing
    2014
  • Follies

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Messiah

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Verdi: Aida - Arena di Verona 2013

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Alban Berg: Wozzeck

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Roberto Alagna à Versailles - Un siècle d'opéra français - 2009

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Roberto Alagna - Pasión Live

    director

    directing
    2011
  • The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Tchaikovsky: Simphonies 4,5 & 6 - Valery Gergiev

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 - Gergiev

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Gustav Mahler - Autopsie d'un génie

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Dialogues des Carmelites

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Le Carnaval des animaux

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Peer Gynt

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter: The Mozart Violin Concertos

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Harold en Italie

    director

    directing
    2006
  • The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza

    director

    directing
    2004
  • Sur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez

    director

    directing
    2000

• camera (2 credits)

  • Dutch National Opera: The Maid of Orleans

    director of photography

    camera
    2025
  • Jacques Offenbach - Die schöne Helena

    director of photography

    camera
    2019

• crew (1 credits)

  • Beethoven Reloaded

    cinematography

    crew
    2020

• production (1 credits)

  • Aida

    production director

    production
    2006