Olivia Fuchs is an international opera and theatre director. She won the 2007 Green Room and Helpmann Awards for Rusalka at Sydney Opera House. Notable productions include: The Makropulos Affair and Der Rosenkavalier (WNO); Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Opera House, Linbury); Rusalka (Opera Australia/Opera North); Pelléas et Mélisande (Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires); Ines de Castro by James MacMillan (Scottish Opera) and recently the world premiere of Grete Minde (Oper Magdeburg). She has also directed Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, Otello, Madama Butterfly (Magdeburg); Dead Man Walking (Oldenburg); Die Zauberflöte, Madama Butterfly (Oviedo); Don Giovanni (Opera North); Rigoletto, La traviata, Il trovatore (Danish National Opera); The Rake’s Progress, Hänsel und Gretel, Cherevichki, Maynight, Osud and Sarka (Garsington Opera); Cunning Little Vixen (Longborough); Kat’a Kabanova, Jenufa, Iolanta, Fidelio, Iris, Macbeth, Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Holland Park) amongst others. Future work includes: Falstaff (Opera North), Death in Venice (Welsh National Opera) and Eugene Onegin (Staatstheater Karlsruhe).