David Alden is not being immodest in acknowledging he was in the right place at the right time to have a major influence on world opera during its most exciting period of development in modern times.

Alden has set his "Lucia" in Victorian times, with a set (by Charles Edwards) that suggests an abandoned orphanage or the brutal Salem House in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield."Plaster ...

Part film noir, part surrealistic nightmare, David Alden's new production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" is dominated by a single image — a painting of Icarus plunging toward his death after ...

The Flying Dutchman, the second production to open in the Santa Fe Opera's 2023 season, receives a research-based updating from acclaimed director David Alden, whose Jenůfa was the outstanding ...

David Alden’s production, which opened in 2012 and returns to the Metropolitan Opera this season, is attractive and eye-catching, with its bold black and white contrasts and angular shifting ...

One of the troubles of being a major institution like the Met is that when they produce a new production of a major opera--and Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, which opened in revival the other ...

English National Opera has revealed its 2023-2024 season, comprising nine operas, all presented in English, at the London Coliseum. The season will open September 21 with a revival of David Alden ...

The Metropolitan Opera has announced a 2023–24 season with the most new works in the company’s modern history. See show details, performances dates, and how to purchase tickets! San Francisco ...

Conducted by Thomas Guggeis and directed by David Alden, ... Five years ago, as a 24-year-old music staff member at the Berlin State Opera, ...

For his English National Opera production, director David Alden updates Janáček’s 1904 opera, drawn from Gabriela Preissová’s play, from its original 19th-century Moravian village setting ...