Stage director Kristine McIntyre has directed more than 80 operas across the U.S. with a focus on new, contemporary, and American works. Productions include Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby Dick (Utah Opera, Pittsburgh Opera), Dead Man Walking (Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, Madison Opera), the world premiers of Louis Karchin’s Jane Eyre (Center for Contemporary Opera, New York).
Other recent opera directing credits include a film-noir style Don Giovanni (Utah Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Kentucky Opera), an Emmy-award winning production of Manon for Des Moines Metro Opera, Otello, La Cenerentola, Tosca, Le nozze di Figaro, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and La clemenza di Tito (Pittsburgh Opera and La bohème (Des Moines Metro Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor and Madama Butterfly (Arizona Opera).
Kristine began her career at the San Francisco Opera and then spent eight years on the directing staff of the Metropolitan Opera where she directed revivals of La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Luisa Miller, and directed La traviata on tour for the company in Japan and for HD broadcast as part of the Renée Fleming gala.
Kristine has trained opera singers in the studio programs at the Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera. Her recent bilingual adaptation of The Barber of Seville was produced to great acclaim Portland Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Houston Grand Opera/HGO CO and will be seen at Atlanta Opera in future seasons.
Kristine has a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Georgetown University and Master’s in Theatre from the University of Hull in England.
