Francisco Peralta Torrejón

Francisco Peralta Torrejón (10 November 1965) is an Austrian photographer whose work is dedicated predominantly to opera.

Francisco Peralta Torrejón was born and raised in La Serena, Chile. He came to Europe in the late 1980s and started a career as a model in Italy. In the 1990s he began to work as a photographer in the fashion sector.^[1] He worked for Austrian magazines DIVA, NEWS and WOMAN as well as for the Austrian edition of Brigitte. He portrayed a number of well known actors, singers and managers such as Alfons Haider, now president of the Mörbisch Festival,^[2] classical singer Thomas Hampson or Helga Rabl-Stadler, then president of the Salzburg Festival. He also photographed politicians of all stripes, for example ministers Karin Gastinger and Maria Rauch-Kallat as well as the first and the third president of the National Council of Austria, Barbara Prammer and Eva Glawischnig. He worked for off-theatre groups and photographed psychotherapists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

His focus today is on operas, memorial blocks, architecture, and nature photography. ^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} Together with his colleague Christian Michelides he documents theatre and opera performances in many venues worldwide — i.e. at the Burgtheater, the Berliner Ensemble, and the Piccolo Teatro of Milano, at the state operas of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Vienna, at La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, at Komische Oper in Berlin, Semperoper in Dresden, Oslo Opera, Graz Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Liceu in Barcelona and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, in Lisbon, Paris, Lyon and Marseilles, London, Cardiff and Glasgow, Chicago, Houston, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney, furthermore at the festivals of Bayreuth, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Savonlinna, Wexford, Garsington, Grange Park and Bregenz.^{[18][19][20][21]}

His photographs have been published in various newspapers, magazines, books and websites worldwide, i.e. La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, The Irish Times, The Hindu, The Jewish Press, Klassik Radio and The Theatre Times.

• Ute Bock: Die Geschichte einer Flüchtlingshelferin, 2010
• Christine Laudahn: Zwischen Postdramatik und Dramatik, Roland Schimmelpfennigs Raumentwürfe, 2012
• Elisabeth Jupiter: Die Angst vor Jakob, Psychotherapeutische Geschichten, 2012
• Frank Bajohr, Andrea Löw: Der Holocaust, Ergebnisse und neue Fragen der Forschung, 2015
• 금난새: 금난새의 오페라 여행: 오페라 여행을 위한 단 한 권의 완벽 가이드 (Geum Nan-sae's operareizen: de enige echte complete gids voor operareizen), 2016
• Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen unter dem Hakenkreuz, zeitgeschichtliche Betrachtungen einer Kleinstadt in Mittelholstein, 2018
• Sergei Eremenko: Soliton Nature, 2019
• Giacinta Cavagna di Gualdana: Guida curiosa ai luoghi insoliti di Milano, 2019
• Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture, 2023
• Leo N. Tolstoi: Gesammelte Bühnenwerke, Tolstoi Friedensbibliothek 2024 (cover)

• ÖsterreichWiki (German)