Mira Bartov was born in Stockholm 1975. She received her musical education at the Nordic Conservatory of Music, where she studied singing, acting and the piano and between 1992-1996 she was trained as an actress at Drama Centre London.

After having worked as a stage manager at the Opera house in Tel Aviv , she returned to Sweden where she studied literature, philosophy and history of ideas at the University of Stockholm and in 2002 she began her education as an opera director at the Opera Academy in Stockholm, from which she graduated in 2005. She made her debut as an opera director in 2006 with Rigoletto at the Folkoperan in Stockholm, where she became the General Artistic Director in 2008.

In 2009 she became a Professor of Musical Drama at the Opera Academy in Gothenburg.

She has written a few opera librettos such as Confession of a fool, a chamber opera based on the life of August Strindberg, and has also translated several opera librettos.

She has directed, among other productions: Shit också an opera written by youths performed at the Folkoperan in 2007, Giannis Schicchi, a co production with the Parktheatre in Stockholm in 2008 and Les pecheurs des perles at the Folkoperan in 2009.  Julius Caesar in 2005, The Magic Flute in 2008 at Norrlandsoperan in Sweden andThe Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell–Davies with the Piteå chamberopera 2007.

In 2010 she made her international debut with Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin at Le Grand theatre de Geneve, where she will return in 2011 to direct Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. In the autumn of 2010 she will be directing Gonoud’s Faust at the Folkoperan.