Opera Director

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian film director, writer and opera director. Although Tarkovksy directed only seven feature films during his twenty-year active career, he is widely regarded as one of the most important and...

Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić on September 5, 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von...

Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television. Internationally, he is known for having directed the 1968 film version of...

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard (1963). He died in Rome of a stroke at the age of 69. There is a museum dedicated to...

Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 - October 30, 1943) was an influential Austria-American theatre and film director and actor. He was born as Maximilian Goldmann, of Jew ancestry, in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary. From 1902 until the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933,...

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British neurologist, theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. He lives in Camden, North London. Miller grew up in St John's Wood, London, in a well-connected Jew family -...

Jürgen Flimm was born in Gießen, Germany. He studied theory of drama, literature and sociology at the University of Cologne and started his career with his first position as assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele in 1968. He had positions as director at the...

Calixto Bieito (Miranda de Ebro, 2 November 1963) is a Spanish theater director known for his radical interpretations of classic operas. Bieito gained perhaps his greatest notoriety with his production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera for the Gran Teatre del Liceu in...

Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s or even the world's foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also...

Tim Supple is an English theatre and opera director, with a reputation for breathing new life into familiar stories. Tim Supple began working as an assistant director at the Theatre Royal in York. Between 1988 and 1991 he directed at the Crucible Theatre in...

Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theater director, renowned for his modern stagings of classical operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Culture at U.C.L.A. where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action. Sellars...

Patrice Chéreau (born 2 November 1944) is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer. Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, France, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and...

Christoph Schlingensief (born October 24 1960 in Oberhausen) is a German film and theatre director, actor and author. Because of his often controversial work he has often been called a "scandal-maker". As a young man he organized art "events" in the cellar of his...

Herman Geiger-Torel (July 13, 1907 – October 6, 1976) was a Canadian opera director. In 1969, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Geiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel,...

Herbert Graf (1903-1973) was an Austria-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873-1958), the Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Freud's circle. It is now known that the young Herbert Graf was the 'Little Hans'...

Wolfgang Wagner (born 30 August 1919) is the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951. Wolfgang is the son of Siegfried Wagner, the grandson of the German composer Richard Wagner, and the great...

Theater and opera director Tim Ocel has directed productions for organizations ranging from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to Shakespeare Santa Cruz to Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York to the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. He has been artistic director of the...

Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even...

Rebecca Scheiner is a German stage director; she directs opera and musicals. She has worked at the Vienna State Opera and with the Vienna Boys' Choir.

Wieland Wagner (January 5, 1917 – October 17, 1966) was a German opera director. Wieland was the elder of two sons of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner and grandson of composer Richard Wagner. In 1941, he married the dancer and choreographer Gertrude Reissinger. They...

Harry Kupfer (born 12 August 1935) is a German director known for his avant-garde productions of Richard Wagner, which often got him into trouble under the former communist regime of East Germany. For 21 years Kupfer was director of Berlin's Komische Opera. Since the...

Friedlinde Wagner (March 29, 1918 - May 8, 1991) was the daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife, Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the famous composer Richard Wagner. Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the nickname "Mausie"....

Peter Stein (born October 1, 1937) is a critically acclaimed German theatre and opera director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company he arguably brought to the forefront of German theatre. Born in Berlin, Stein grew up in an era...

David McVicar (1967, Glasgow) is a Scottish opera and theatre director. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2007 The Independent ranked him among the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. McVicar's productions of Faust,...

Francesca Zambello (born 1956) is a leading American opera and theatre director. Zambello lived in Europe when she was a child, learning to speak French, Italian, German and Russian. She attended Moscow University in 1976 and graduated from Colgate University in 1978...

Giorgio Strehler (August 14 1921 – December 25 1997) was one of the most influential directors of Italian opera and theatre. Strehler was born in Barcola (province of Trieste) to an Austria father and a French/Slovene mother, he grew up speaking Italian, but spoke...

Siegfried Schoenbohm is opera stage director, born in South Dakota, USA. Was assistant of Walter Felsenstein. Worked at: See also Tiriel (opera) Schoenbohm, Siegfried

Ronald Eyre (13 April 1929 – 8 April 1992) was an English theatre director, actor and writer. Eyre was born at Mapplewell, near Barnsley, Yorkshire and he taught at Giggleswick School. He became a leading director for the cinema, opera, television and the theatre. He...

Ruth Berghaus (July 2, 1927 – January 25, 1996) was a German choreographer and opera and theatre director. Berghaus was born in Dresden and studied Expressionist dance and Dance direction with Gret Palucca there and was an advanced student at the German Academy of...

Giovanni Battista Locatelli (1713-c1770) was an Italian opera director and owner of a private opera company. In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to...