Gregory Keller

Gregory Keller has directed a vast repertoire of operatic and theatrical productions across the United States. His most recent projects include Rossini’s Il turco in italia at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has also directed Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. Other notable opera credits include Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief at Berkshire Opera; Richard Strauss’s Salome and Floyd’s Susannah at Cedar Rapids Opera Theater; Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann and Verdi’s Louisa Miller for Sarasota Opera; and Rossini’s La Cenerentola for the Oklahoma Mozart Festival. He has worked on numerous productions for the Metropolitan Opera, including Berg’s Lulu and Wozzeck and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. He also directed Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King with Eos Orchestra in New York. Keller’s extensive theater background informs the immediately communicative style in which he directs each one of his productions. His production of Mark Crispin Miller’s Patriot Act at New York Theater Workshop was released on DVD and broadcast nationwide. Other theatrical productions include Jean-Claude van Itallie’s Ancient Boys at the one-of-a-kind performance venue LaMaMa in New York City, and Water over Time, a touring one-woman show about the first female physicist, Laura Bassi. Mr. Keller has been a frequent guest faculty member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and has also taught master classes and directed for young artists at the Santa Fe Opera and New England Conservatory of Music. A frequent lecturer and mentor to young artists, Mr. Keller has taught master classes and directed scene studies at the Santa Fe Opera and New England Conservatory of Music. A native of Los Angeles, he is an alumnus of Columbia College.