Andreas Homoki was born in Germany to a Hungarian family of musicians. He studied school music and German studies in West Berlin. In 1987, he joined the Cologne Opera as an assistant director and evening performance manager, where he worked until 1993. From 1988 to 1992, he also taught stage performance at the opera school of the Cologne University of Music. It was there that he staged his first own productions. In 1992, his first guest production took him to Geneva, where his interpretation of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) received international acclaim. The production, which was later also presented at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, was awarded the French Critics’ Prize in 1994.

From 1993 to 2002, he worked as a freelance opera director, staging productions in cities including Cologne, Hamburg, Geneva, Lyon, Leipzig, Basel, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Munich. He made his debut at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1996 with Falstaff, followed by The Love for Three Oranges (1998) and The Merry Widow (2000). In 2002, he succeeded Harry Kupfer as Chief Director of the Komische Oper Berlin, and in 2004 he became its Artistic Director. In addition to his directing work at the Komische Oper Berlin, during his tenure he also staged productions at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, and the Hamburg State Opera. In July 2012, under the musical direction of William Christie, he directed David et Jonathas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the Festival in Aix-en-Provence – a production that was later also shown in Edinburgh, Paris, and New York, among other places.

Since the summer of 2012, he has been the Artistic Director of the Zurich Opera House. Since then, he has directed, among others: The Flying Dutchman (a co-production with La Scala in Milan), Fidelio, Juliette, Lohengrin (a co-production with the Vienna State Opera), Luisa Miller (Hamburg State Opera), Wozzeck, My Fair Lady (Komische Oper Berlin), Lunea (by Heinz Holliger), which was named World Premiere of the Year 2017/18 by the magazine Opernwelt, Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, Nabucco (a co-production with Amsterdam and Madrid), Simon Boccanegra, Iphigénie en Tauride, and Salome. At the Opéra Comique in Paris, he directed Carmen in 2023. From the 2022/23 season onward, he worked on Wagner’s Ring Cycle for Zurich. To conclude his tenure in Zurich, he directed Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah.

Andreas Homoki has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1999.