Elke Neidhardt

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elke Cordelia Neidhardt AM (born 1941) is a German-Australian actress and opera and theatre director. She has appeared in theatre, television and feature films in Germany, Austria, France and Australia, and has directed operas in Zurich, Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Vienna, Cologne and Australia. She is best known in Australia for directing operas with Opera Australia, and most particularly for directing the first full modern Australian production of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, in Adelaide in 2004. Elke Neidhardt was born in Stuttgart. She graduated from the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, and later directed operas in Zurich, Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg and Vienna. She married an Australian and moved to Melbourne. In 1968 she played Dr. Anna Steiner, a German doctor, in some episodes of the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Neidhardt then appeared in other Australian television series such as The Link Men (1970) and Shannon's Mob (1975).