Esteban Muñoz Herrera was born in Valdivia (Chile). He studied theater sciences at Ludwig Maximilians University as well as dramaturgy at the August Everding Theater Academy in Munich.
He worked with directors such as Calixto Bieito, Barrie Kosky, Emilio Sagi and Balázs Kovalik, and has performed at numerous opera houses, including in Cologne, Zurich, Lausanne, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Chicago, Houston, Santiago de Chili and at the Salzburg Festival.
Since 2011, he has had a close artistic collaboration with Carlus Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus. Together, they developed productions such as Die Soldaten (Oper Köln), Elektra (Norrlands Operan), Der Ring des Nibelungen (Houston and Taichung), Karl V. (Bayerische Staatsoper), and Der Freischütz (Konzerthaus Berlin).
In Chile, he directed the play Cariño malo by Inés Margarita Stranger, the oratio 1850 by Luis ADvis, and developed the shows Divas del cine and Los viudos de Marilyn for pop singer Paz Court.
From 2016 to 2023, he was engaged as a stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he was responsible for the semi-staged performances of Paul Abraham’s operettes Dschainah and Die Blume von Hawaii, as well as the German premiere of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream with the theatrical music of Astor Piazolla.
In 2013, he was awarded the ProArte Prize as the Young Artist oft he Year in Chile.
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