Mihaela Bogdan Sandu

Biography

Mihaela Bogdan Sandu is an opera stage director whose artistic activity spans Romania, Europe, and North America. She has directed opera, operetta, and musical productions, including Tannhäuser, Eugen Onegin, Don Carlo, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Rake's Progress, Maria de Buenos Aires, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, La bohème, L'elisir d'amore, and more.

Internationally, she has collaborated with the Martina Arroyo Foundation in New York, staging Der Fledermaus, and with the Miami University Opera Theater, directing The Magic Flute, Gianni Schicchi, and Suor Angelica. She also served as visiting professor and stage director with the MU Opera Theatre, Oxford. Her collaborations further include Vancouver Opera (Canada) and Indianapolis Opera (USA), working alongside distinguished artists such as Tito Capobianco, Tazewell Thompson, Carol Vaness, Dame Judith Forst, Nic Muni, Stephen Costello, and Constantine Orbelian.

A Fulbright alumna, Mihaela holds a degree in Opera Studies from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Since 2008, she has been a stage director with the Romanian National Opera Cluj-Napoca, and since 2017, she has been part of the teaching staff at the "Gh. Dima" National Academy of Music, Department of Musical Performing Arts.