Matthew Wild

Matthew Wild (born 17 January 1980) is a South African theatre director and stage director, especially of opera. He was artistic director of the Cape Town Opera from 2015 to 2021. Wild worked internationally, directing Boesmans's Julie at NorrlandsOperan and the Malmö Opera in 2009, the world premiere of Philip Miller's Between a Rock and a Hard Place at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2013, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 2016, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at the Theater an der Wien in 2019, and Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Oper Frankfurt in 2024.