Matthew Wild

Matthew Wild is one of the most versatile and prolific South African theatre directors of his generation, equally at home staging operas, musicals, new plays and classic texts. A two-time Fleur du Cap Award winner, and one of the Mail and Guardian's 200 Young South Africans for 2012, Matthew's productions have been seen on stages throughout his homeland, as well as in Germany, Sweden, Ireland and Australia. Since 2015, he has been the Artistic Director of Cape Town Opera. Matthew made his opera directing debut in Sweden in 2009, with Boesmans’ Julie for NorrlandsOperan and Malmö Opera. In the years since, he has created acclaimed productions of Il viaggio a Reims, Suor Angelica, The Rake’s Progress, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Medium, Salome and Der fliegende Holländer in South Afric