Evans Mirageas is in his 21st season as The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera. Widely considered one of the most talented and respected artistic leaders in the classical music industry today, Mirageas brings to Cincinnati Opera over 40 years of experience in opera, symphonic and chamber music , as well as a long history of successful partnerships with many of the world’s leading singers, conductors and composers.

Mirageas’s varied career in classical music has included radio production with the nationally renowned WFMT radio station in Chicago, Artistic Administrator to Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony, Senior Vice President of Artists and Repertoire for the Decca Record Company and from 2007 until 2021 he was Vice-President of Artistic Planning for The Atlanta Symphony.

His board affiliations include the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation for singers of which he is president. In addition, Mirageas is an award-winning record producer, lecturer, interviewer, presenter, and awards panelist. Since 1999, Mirageas has served as an independent artistic advisor to conductors, instrumentalists, singers, symphony orchestras, opera companies, and other performing arts organizations throughout the United States and Europe.

Mirageas currently makes his home in Cincinnati, Ohio with his husband Thomas Dreeze.