Ingo Arnason graduated as a director from the Italian Theater Academy Accademia Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica  “Silvio D’Amico” in Rome 1999.

He has since 2002 been working as a director mainly focusing on opera.

Ingo Arnason is (since 2012) the General & Artistic director of the Nordic Artists Resident House Circolo Scandinavo in Rome, Italy.