Guillermo Amaya

The director and writer Guillermo Amaya has released numerous productions for theatre, opera and musicals in Spain as well as in various EU countries and Peru. His musical theater productions cover the entire spectrum of the repertoire, from baroque such as Monteverdi's »L'Orfeo« and Purcell's »Dido and Aeneas«, the classical repertoire such as Mozart's »Così fan tutte« and »Don Giovanni« or Donizetti's »L'elisir d'amore«, works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including Menotti's »The Old maid and the Thief«, Bernstein's »Trouble in Tahiti«, operettas such as »Boccaccio« by Suppè, musicals such as »Jekyll & Hyde« by Wildhorn and children's operas such as »Pinocchio« by Valtinoni or »Peter Pan« by Hiller. The Landestheater Bregenz presented the musical »The Wizard of Oz« in a version written by him based on the original book by L. Frank Baum.
In May 2014, his production of Beethoven's »Fidelio« at the Niedersachsener Theater in Hildesheim-Hannover was performed with great success, followed by an engagement as head director. In Hildesheim he staged productions including »Venus and Adonis« by Blow, »Fra Diavolo« by Auber, Smetana's »The Bartered Bride« and the Donizetti opera »Adelia«, which was honoured as the discovery of the season by the specialist magazine »Der Opernfreund«.
In Spain, Guillermo Amaya performs as an author and director with his group »OroEnPaño«, for example at the SURGE Festival in Madrid or at the Bilbao-Musika-Música Festival, where he was invited with a work based on a text he wrote himself for soprano and actors. His most recent works include Mozart's »Il re pastore« at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre in San Sebastián, a Spanish version of Pauline Viardot-García's »Cendrillon«, which he wrote himself and performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Teatro Echegaray in Málaga and Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, and, in San Sebastián, Donizetti's »La fille du régiment« with self-written dialogue in Spanish and Basque.
In 2024, he staged Richard Wagner's »Lohengrin« at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo. Guillermo Amaya made his first guest appearance at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg in 2023 for the production of Prokofiev's »The Love for Three Oranges«.