She was the last ‘Meisterschülerin’ of the celebrated director Ruth Berghaus. She made her professional debut directing Puccini’s Turandot (Graz Opera), and has worked as a freelance director ever since.

Career highlights include: Parsifal (Vlaamse Opera); Der Ring des Nibelungen, directed as a trilogy which focussed on Hagen, Siegfried and Brünnhilde, the protagonists of the ‘second generation’ (Theater an der Wien, 2017); Alcina (Vienna); Jephtha (Halle); and, most recently, Don Giovanni (Bremen). In 2013, she was named Director of the Year by Germany’s magazine Opernwelt.