Highlights of the 2025/26 season include Verdi Otello for the Teatro Real and his debut at The Grange Festival creating a new production of Handel Giulio Cesare. Recent Highlights include Alden’s award-winning productions of Britten Peter Grimes, Janácek Jenůfa for the English National Opera, Janáček Katya Kabanova for Grange Park Opera, Wagner Lohengrin for San Francisco Opera, Verdi Un ballo in Maschera for the Metropolitan Opera, Donizetti Anna Bolena for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Other work include new productions of Donizetti Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda for the Zurich Opera House, Halévy La Juive for Grand Théâtre de Genève, Rossini Semiramide for Bayerische Staatsoper and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lohengrin for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Meyerbeer Les Huguenots for Deutsche Oper Berlin, Catalani Loreley for the Stadttheater St Gallen, and revivals of his acclaimed Otello at the Teatro Real, Britten Billy Budd at the Bolshoi Theatre, Handel Alcina for Santa Fe Opera, Alcina at the Teatro Real, Rossini Maometto II for Canadian Opera Company and a return to English National Opera for new productions of Otello, Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades and a series of Verdi operas at Hamburg State Opera: La battaglia di Legnano, I due Foscari and I Lombardi alla prima crociata.
Together with his brother Christopher Alden, he also directed semi-staged productions of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Sought after by the world’s opera houses, Alden has directed other operas with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Cologne Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Vienna Volksoper, Graz Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, New Israeli Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, and American Music Theatre Festival.
His productions of Thomas Adès Powder her Face for Aldeburgh Festival, Handel Ariodante for ENO, Rodelinda, Rinaldo and Wagner Tannhäuser for Bavarian State Opera are all available on film. Film and television credits include a version of Schubert Die Winterreise with Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake, Weill Die Siebe Todsünden, Welsh National Opera’s production of L’Incoronazione di Poppea, and a documentary on Verdi for BBC Television. He also directed a world concert tour for the Pet Shop Boys.
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