Director
Olivia Fuchs
La traviataBiography
Olivia Fuchs is an international opera and theatre director. She won the 2007 Green Room and Helpmann Awards for Dvorak’s Rusalka at Sydney Opera House. Notable productions include: Britten’s Death in Venice, Janacek’s The Makropulos Affair and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier with Welsh National Opera; Rusalka and Verdi’s Falstaff (Opera North) Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera); Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Opera House, Linbury); Dvorak’s Rusalka (Opera Australia / Opera North); Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande (Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires); MacMillan’s Ines de Castro (Scottish Opera) and the world premiere of Engel’s Grete Minde (Oper Magdeburg). She has directed many productions in Germany, for Danish National Opera, in Oviedo, Spain, and in the UK for Opera North, Garsington Opera and Opera Holland Park. Future work includes: Rimsky-Korsakoff’s The Snowmaiden (English Touring Opera) and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Karlsruhe).
April 2024