Mira Bartov was born in Stockholm 1975. She got her musical education at the Nordic Conservatory of Music, where she studied singing, acting and the piano.
Between 1992-1996 she was trained as an actress at Drama Centre London.
In 2000, after having worked a year as a stage manager at the Opera house in Tel Aviv , she returned to Sweden where she studied literature, philosophy and history of ideas at the University of Stockholm.
In 2002 she began her education as an opera director at the Opera Academy in Stockholm, from which she graduated in 2005.
She made her debut as an opera director in 2006 with “Rigoletto” at the Folkopera in Stockholm, where she became the General Artistic Director in 2008.
The same year she became a Professor of Musical Drama at the Opera Academy in Gothenborg.
Mira has written a few opera librettos such as “Confession of a fool”, a chamber opera based on the life of August Strindberg, and has also translated several opera librettos.
She has directed, among other productions: “Shit också” an opera written by youths performed at the Folkopera in 2007, “Gianni Schicchi”, a co production with the Parktheatre in Stockholm in 2008 and “Les pêcheurs de perles” at the Folkopera in 2009. “Julius Caesar” in 2005 and “The magic flute” 2008 at Norrlandsoperan in Sweden, “The lighthouse” by Peter Maxwell – Davies with Piteå chamberopera 2007. “Faust” by Gonoud at the Folkopera in 2010. Last year she made her international debut as an opera director with “Alice in wonderland” composed by Unsuk Chin at Le Grand théâtre de Genève, where she will return in 2011 to direct Mozarts “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”.
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