Olivia Fuchs
Raised in Germany, Olivia Fuchs moved to London to study drama and train as an actor. She co-founded Cracked Mirror theatre company, later known as Theatre Works, and began her directing work by adapting European classics and new plays.
In all her opera-making Fuchs is interested in examining the complexities of our time through bold physical story-telling. She has developed a psychologically rigorous, physically expressive, and visually poetic style, through which she seeks to highlight the human condition, our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. Her collaborative approach and physical methodology explore the transformative power of opera to make change.
Fuchs’ many productions and collaborations in the UK include main-house productions with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Scottish Opera as well as acclaimed productions in the Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House). She has directed internationally for Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Opera Australia, Sydney; Opera Oviedo, Spain; Danish National Opera; and works regularly in Germany. In 2008 she was awarded both Helpmann and Green Room awards for ‘Best Direction’ and ‘Best Production in Opera’ for Rusalka at Sydney Opera House.
She also enjoys creating projects in unusual spaces with a wide variety of performers, in particular young people.
Recent productions:
Eugene Onegin – Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe)
Death in Venice – Benjamin Britten (Welsh National Opera)
La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi (Irish National Opera)
The Snowmaiden – Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (English Touring Opera)
Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi (Opera North)
L’Orfeo – Claudio Monteverdi (Longborough Opera Festival)
Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss (Welsh National Opera)
Věc Makropulos – Leoš Janáček (Welsh National Opera)
Grete Minde – Eugen Engel (Magdeburg, Germany)
Cunning Little Vixen – Leoš Janáček (Longborough Opera Festival)