Karel Drgac

• Director, Artistic/Stage
• Teacher

About

Karel Drgac began his stage directing career in 1983 as an assistant to famed director Jean-Pierre Ponelle at the opera companies in Chicago, Vienna and Zurich, as well as the Salzburg Festival and the Metropolitan Opera. After several seasons as Stage Director and Production Coordinator at the opera in Graz, Austria, Mr. Drgac became the first post-Communist General Manager and Artistic Director of the State Opera Prague in 1990.