During the 2025-26 season, Joan Font serves as the director of The Barber of Seville, the same production HGO presented in 2018 and 2011. Previously for the company, Font directed Cinderella (2024, 2007) and The Italian Girl in Algiers (2012). Font is the founding director of the Barcelona-based company Comediants, for which he has created more than 40 productions internationally. His operatic work began with The Magic Flute at Gran Teatre del Liceu; Orfeo ed Euridice at the Perelada Festival; and the zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma at Granada Festival. His Cinderella has been presented at La Monnaie in Brussels, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Welsh National Opera, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Omaha, Washington National Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. His production of The Italian Girl in Algiers has been seen in Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Comunale of Florence, the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, and Teatre de les Arts in Valencia, and his Barber of Seville has been presented at Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Canadian Opera Company. In 2010, Font directed a new production of The Magic Flute for the Auditorio de Murcia. Outside of opera, Font and Comediants have presented special performances for Shanghai’s World Expo and for the celebration of Hanoi’s Millenium (Vietnam). In 2011, Font directed and premiered Persephone in Moscow’s Chekhov Festival, which was later played in Madrid’s Centro Dramático Nacional and Barcelona’s Teatre Lliure. Font has worked on special projects for the Festival d’Avignon and Venice’s Biennale, as well as other projects in Paris, New York, Chicago, Bogotá, Sydney, Tokyo, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Hannover, Beijing, and other cities.