current & forthcoming
G. Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia
Theater Bonn | Until 17 June 2026
W.A. Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro
Den Norske Opera | Premiere 16 May 2026
Hungarian State Opera | Premiere 7 June 2026
Oper Frankfurt | Premiere 13 September 2026
J. Kander & F. Ebb | Kuss der Spinnenfrau
Staatstheater Hannover | Premiere 28 November 2026
R. Wagner | Tannhäuser (revival)
Oper Frankfurt | Premiere 17 January 2027
Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Premiere 13 February 2027
B. Martinů | The Greek Passion
Oper Frankfurt | Premiere 25 April 2027
news
10 May 2026
Noted Norwegian visual artist and photographer Anja Niemi has created a photo series to launch Matthew Wild's new production of Le nozze di Figaro at Den Norske Opera in May 2026: click here to view the campaign.
27 September 2024
Matthew Wild's production of Tannhäuser for Oper Frankfurt has been announced as the joint winner of "Aufführung des Jahres" in Opernwelt's 2024 Kritikerumfrage.
30 July 2023
Königskinder returned to the Tiroler Festspiele Erl in summer 2023, cementing its position as a critical and audience favourite: according to Der Standard, "The Erl Festival delights with Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Königskinder ... Matthew Wild's production brings the fairytale events in Erl into the present without robbing it of its poetry."
19 November 2022
Wild's production of Handel's Alcina for Cape Town Opera recently played to standing ovations and critical praise in Cape Town: "an evening of refined pleasures to savour both immediately and in retrospect ... Deft imaginative direction .... with much to delight eye and ear, as well as stimulate the mind." (Weekend Special).
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11 November 2022
Matthew Wild took home the Best Director Award at last night's Woordtrofee ceremony for his recent production of Weill and Brecht's Die sieben Todsünden (in a new arrangement and Afrikaans translation by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder as Die sewe doodsondes) at the Toyota US Woordfees. The production also won for Best Ensemble, and was nominated for four further awards including Best Production.
14 September 2022
At a ceremony last night at Grafenegg, Katrin Lea Tag took home the Austrian Music-Theatre Prize for Best Design for her set and costumes for Matthew Wild's production of Porgy & Bess at the Theater an der Wien.
The production was also nominated in the categories Best Overall Production: Opera, Best Musical Direction (Wayne Marshall) and Best Performance in a Leading Role: Male (Eric Greene).
