Olivia Fuchs

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Olivia Fuchs

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London

Nationality| British-German
Education| Westfield College
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* University of London
* Berkley University

Occupation| Stage Director

Olivia Fuchs (born in London) is a British-German stage director.

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Olivia Fuchs holds dual citizenship (UK and Germany). She was first educated in Western Germany and went on to study at Westfield College at the University of London and at Berkley University in California. She also completed the Postgraduate Acting course at the Drama Studio in London.

She has mainly worked at Opera Holland Park in London, Theater Magdeburg in Germany and at the Den Jyske Opera, the Danish National Opera, where she directed three Verdi operas: Rigoletto, La traviata, Il trovatore. Notable productions include Der Rosenkavalier at WNO and The Marriage of Figaro at ENO, Brittens A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RHO and Dvoraks Rusalka at Opera Australia and at Opera North. She was invited by Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires for Debussy's  Pelléas et Mélisande and by the Scottish Opera for Ines de Castro, an opera on a Galician noblewoman and courtier, lover and secret wife of of King Pedro I of Portugal. In Oviedo she has directed Madama Butterfly and Die Zauberflöte, in Oldenburg Dead Man Walking, in Garsington The Rake’s Progress and Hänsel und Gretel, in Longborough The Cunning Little Vixen. At the Theater Magdeburg, Olivia Faust staged Der Rosenkavalier, Otello, Madama Butterfly and the world premiere of Grete Minde by Eugen Engel. At Opera Holland Park she staged Kat’a Kabanova, Jenůfa, Iolanta, Fidelio, Iris, Macbeth and Lucia di Lammermoor, seven operas in which women are the principal characters.

In Autumn of 2022, her interpretation of Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair premiered at the Welsh National Opera. This production was later-on also shown on tour in the UK and in Brno, at the Janáček Festival, with Ángeles Blancas Gulín in the title role.[1] In July of 2023, the Longborough Festival Opera presented her new staging of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, with Peter Gijsbertsen in the title role.[2]

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1. ↑ WNO: The Makropulos Affair; the director’s perspective, 11 August 2022
2. ↑ Longborough Festival Opera: L'Orfeo, retrieved on 9 July 2023

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