Reinhard Linden (born 1957 in Ingelheim am Rhein) is a German opera director. Since the season 2006/2007 he has worked in this capacity at the Kiel Opera House. A trained church musician, he previously served as a coach, tutor, conductor and singer. Linden has experience at

La Scala La Scala (, , ; abbreviation in Italian of the official name ) is a famous opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the ' (New Royal-Ducal Theatre alla Scala). The premiere performan ...

Paris Opera The Paris Opera (, ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the , but continued to be ...

, as a coach in New York City and Vienna, and in teaching in the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt. He was at the

Wuppertal Opera Opernhaus Wuppertal (Wuppertal Opera House) is a German theatre in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. It houses mostly performances of operas, but also plays, run by the municipal Wuppertaler Bühnen. The house is also the venue for dance perfo ...

and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein study leader from 2004-2006. He was also an artistic advisor at National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center in Taipei, Taiwan, where he overlooked the first performance of

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' in the Chinese-speaking world.

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