British-Swiss director Max Hoehn began his career assisting directors such as Graham Vick, David Pountney and Johannes Erath. In 2015 he won the Independent Opera Directing Fellowship and staged the UK Premiere of Simon Vosecek’s Biedermann and the Arsonists at Sadler’s Wells, which led to his nomination for Best Young Director at the International Opera Awards. Recent productions include The Consul (Welsh National Opera) and La Cenerentola (Stadttheater Bremerhaven). In 2023 he directs new productions of The Flying Dutchman (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon), Mozart and Salieri, A Feast in Times of Plague and Four Sisters (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
Plans include new productions of Così fan tutte (Welsh National Opera) and Die Fledermaus (Theater Neubrandenburg Neustrelitz). His opera translations include Khovanshchina for Birmingham Opera Company. He is the founding Artistic Director of Opera21, a laboratory for new work, whose current commissions are The Last Castrato for Torsten Rasch and Sonata for Broken Fingers for Joe Cutler.