Born in Vienna in 1965, David Haneke is an internationally appreciated video designer and director. Growing up in Vienna, he studied the cello with Professor Ebert, before departing to Amsterdam at the age of twenty, to study performing arts at the University of Amsterdam.
While performing with different theatre groups in the 1990s, Haneke started exploring and developing the love affair between theatre and film, which finds its echo in his stage work and video design. The core of his visual work is the creation of projection content, video design and video stage design (where the entire stage is defined by video projections only). He works for theatre, dance, opera, music in Europe, the UK and the US.
In 2016 he joined the American cult band Tuxedomoon as live on stage video artist.
His opera and ballet credits include Enoch Arden (also as director, Theater an der Wien, 2022), Alice (Opera National du Rhin, 2022), Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Theater an der Wien, 2021), War and Peace (Welsh National Opera, 2018), Macbeth (Theater an der Wien, 2016), Usher House (San Francisco Opera, 2015; Welsh National Opera, 2014). His two most recently projects, both with Sir David Pountney, were Masque of Might at Opera North (2023) and Isle of Dreams based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Grange Park Opera (2024).
