Pamela Rosenberg

Pamela Rosenberg, born in Los Angeles in 1945, after studying history, literature and musicology at the University of California at Berkeley and history at Ohio State University, completed courses in opera stage directing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before receiving her stage management diploma at the London Opera Centre. She gained practical experience in opera staging in master classes in 1966 with Wieland Wagner in Bayreuth, as well as with other stage directors during apprenticeships at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. As a stage director she carried out various opera projects.

From 1980 to 1987 Pamela Rosenberg worked together with General Director and Chief Conductor Michael Gielen at the Frankfurt Opera as a member of his management team before moving to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg as Operations Director, where she worked with Peter Zadek. From 1988 to 1990 she was Manager of Artistic Affairs at the Netherlands National Opera in Amsterdam and from 1991 to 2000 she was Co-Intendant with Klaus Zehelein at the Stuttgart State Opera. From 2001 to 2006 she was General Director of the San Francisco Opera. She was then General Manager of the Berliner Philharmoniker until 2010. She then worked as Dean at the American Academy in Berlin until 2014 after which she remained associated for three years with the Institute in an advisory capacity as Senior Program Consultant.

Pamela Rosenberg was Deputy Chair of the Senate of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 2010 to 2018 and was, as well, from 2009 to 2022 a member of the Board of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and as well as being a member of the Supervisory Board of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra. She has served on the University Council of the Albert Ludwigs University College of Music in Freiburg, the Supervisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University and is a jury member of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award of the Salzburg Festival, the Rotterdam International Conductors Competition as well as the Mahler Competition of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

Pamela Rosenberg was Chairwoman of the Board of MitMachMusik from the foundation of the organisation until the end of 2024.