Aldona Farrugia
Lecturer for the development of arias/scenes
Beethovenhaus Belvedere
Aldona Farrugia is a director, cultural manager and lecturer. She studied musical theatre direction at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg (diploma) and completed an Executive Master in Arts Administration at the University of Zurich.
She began her professional career in 2002 as an assistant director at the Cologne Opera and continued it in 2005 at the Hamburg State Opera under the artistic direction of Simone Young. Since her time in Cologne, she has enjoyed a close artistic collaboration with director Günter Krämer.
Guest engagements have taken her to major festivals and opera houses in Germany and abroad, including the Schwetzingen Festival, the Bremen Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. From 2010 to 2013, she worked on the new production of Richard Wagner's ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.
As opera director, she headed the music theatre department at the Staatstheater Meiningen until 2018. Her productions have been staged at the Cologne Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Bonn Theatre, the Erfurt Theatre, the Staatstheater Meiningen and the Mainfranken Theatre in Würzburg, among others.
As a cultural manager, she played a key role in shaping cultural development in the Wartburgkreis district. She developed the Kulturbogen Wartburgkreis cultural concept, initiated cultural conferences and workshops, and realised successful exhibition projects, including the highly acclaimed exhibition ‘Lililalaland’ by Dikla Stern at the Elektrizitätswerk Eisenach.
Since 2012, Aldona Farrugia has been involved in training young opera professionals, both in Germany and in other European countries. She has led workshops at the National Opera in Warsaw and in collaboration with Prof. Daniela Sindram and Moshe Landsberg in Austria, among others.
From 2022 to 2024, she was a lecturer at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg and, since the summer semester of 2025, she has held a teaching position for scenic instruction at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT in Weimar.
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