One of the leading choreographers worldwide‚ Denni’s current work includes The Ring Cycle (Washington National Opera); Ring Cycle and Die Zauberflöte (Lyric Opera Chicago); Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Festival and Munich)‚ Francesca da Rimini and Manon Lescaut (La Scala Milan); The Cunning Little Vixen (La Monnaie), Le Coq d’Or (Komische Oper Berlin), Carmen (as Associate and Movement Director‚ San Fran- cisco); and as Director‚ Iolanta (RPO at RAH with Petrenko) Pearl Fishers and Don Giovanni (Tulsa). Denni has long-standing collabo- rations with many leading directors‚ including Francesca Zambello‚ Jonathan Kent‚ Neil Armfield‚ David Pountney and the late Nikolaus Lehnhoff.
Recent engagements include Aspects of Love in London’s West End, Masque of Might (Opera North), The Flying Dutchman (Los Ange- les Opera)‚ Götterdämmerung‚ Porgy and Bess and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Opera Chicago)‚ Don Carlos (Houston)‚ Ariadne auf Naxos (Toronto); La fanciulla del West (Bastille‚ Paris)‚ The Flying Dutchman (Royal Danish Opera)‚ Turandot (La Scala‚ Milan)‚ Hänsel und Gretel (Wiener Staatsoper)‚ Elektra (Salzburg)‚ Salome (Baden Baden)‚ The Crucible (Staatstheater Braunschweig); Manon Lescaut (Royal Opera House and Bucharest)‚ Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne)‚ Parsifal‚ The Flying Dutchman and Caligula (ENO); The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, War and Peace and Madama Butterfly (Welsh Natio- nal Opera); Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi Theatre; winner of Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival‚ and winner of Best Musical in The Evening Standard’s Theatre Awards); Die Meister- singer von Nürnberg (Leipzig), Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean (Royal National Theatre)‚ Private Lives (Chichester)‚ Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park) and Les contes d’Hoffmann (Beijing).