Christine Mielitz

Christine Mielitz (born 23 November 1949) is a German theatre and opera director.

After finishing school, she studied opera directing with Götz Friedrich and Hans-Jochen Irmer at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in East-Berlin from 1968 to 1972.

In the course of her studies Mielitz completed an internship with Harry Kupfer at the Dresden State Opera, which initially led to work as an assistant to Kupfers from 1973 and where she became a director from 1980.

In the same year Verdi's Nabucco premiered in Wuppertal was her first own production.

In Meiningen she achieved a great international success with the first performance of the Der Ring des Nibelungen on four consecutive days, as Wagner always wished.