Elisabeth Linton is Artistic Director of Opera at the Royal Danish Theatre. She comes from a position as Chief Dramaturg at Malmö Opera. She trained as a stage director at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, specializing in opera, and over the past 25 years she has worked as a director and dramaturg across the Nordic region and Europe in opera, musical theatre, and drama.

At the Royal Danish Theatre, Elisabeth has staged the operas Der Rosenkavalier, La bohème, Under the Sky, Nabucco and Momo and the Time Thieves, the play The Three Musketeers in Ulvedalene and Matilda the Musical.

Among her other productions are The Confessional (which won a Reumert Award for Best Opera in 2007) and Eugene Onegin at the Danish National Opera, Tristan und Isolde at the Finnish National Opera; Don Juan at Stadttheater Bern; Xerxes at Den Ny Opera; The Makropulos Affair and Orpheus in the Underworld at Malmö Opera; The Snow Queen at Malmö Opera and the Royal Swedish Opera; Evita at Aalborg Theatre; and Jesus Christ Superstar at Aarhus Theatre.