NYC born director Christopher Alden’s work has been seen across the globe.
His production of Handel’s Partenope at English National Opera won the Olivier Award and was subsequently presented by Opera Australia, San Francisco Opera and Teatro Real in Madrid. His other ENO productions include Turandot, The Makropulos Case and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which won the Golden Mask Award when presented at the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow. For San Francisco Opera, Mr. Alden directed Les Contes d’Hoffmann, L‘Incoronazione di Poppea, I Vespri Siciliani, Henze’s Das Verratene Meer, Thomson’s The Mother of Us All and the premiere of Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk, which also travelled to New York City Opera and Houston Grand Opera. At the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence, his staging of Il Turco in Italia was presented as a co-production with Torino, Dijon and Warsaw, and his Glimmerglass Opera production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo travelled to Oslo and Opera North, where he also created productions of Tosca, Norma, I Pagliacci, Bizet’s Djamileh, La Vida Breve, Gianni Schicchi, and Martinu’s The Greek Passion.
In 2024 his production of Un Giorno di Regno opened at Garsington Opera and in June 2025, Opera Theatre of St Louis celebrated its 50th anniversary with Mr. Alden’s production of Don Pasquale, the same opera which he had staged as OTSL’s inaugural production 50 years ago.
