Musicologist, theatre and music manager, Anna Maria Meo is the General Manager of the Teatro Regio di Parma and the Artistic Director of the Festival Verdi since 2015. She graduates at the University of Siena, then attends the Specialization Course for Music Organizers at the Centro di Didattica e Sperimentazione Musicale in Fiesole, including internships at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden in London. From 1990 to 1992 she was the Production Director of the Mozart-Da Ponte Project, at the Ente Teatro Romano of Fiesole. From 1989 to 2000, she was the Manager of the Fondazione William Walton. From 1995 to '98, she served as the Artistic Secretary of the Wexford Opera Festival, from 1998 to 2003 she was the Administrative and Managing Director of the Centro Tempo Reale in Florence, directed by Luciano Berio. From 2004 to 2006, she was responsible for the Research Unit in the field of sound processing, the Media Innovation Unit. From 2004 to 2009 she was Head of Cultural Projects Firenze 2010 – then Firenze Futura. Since 1994 and for almost twenty years she has been active in the prose sector as Managing and Administrative Director of the Teatro Del Carretto. Recently she has worked on a Study Abroad project promoting artistic and scientific training programs dedicated to students from the main US colleges, in collaboration with some of the most prestigious Florentine cultural institutions.