Director

Louisa Muller

The Bartered Bride

Biography

American director Louisa Muller is quickly rising to prominence for her versatility and work of ‘complex finesse’. This is her first production with Irish National Opera. This season she directs Le nozze di Figaro for Opera North and La traviata for Garsington Opera and serves as Associate Director for the UK & Ireland tour of To Kill a Mockingbird. Louisa’s recent production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw for Garsington Opera was the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and was named by The Guardian as one of the Top Ten Classical Music Performances of the Year. She is also a recent finalist in both the ‘Director’ and ‘Newcomer’ categories of the International Opera Awards. Her new production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers for Houston Grand Opera was a widely-heralded debut and she received rich critical acclaim for her staging of Wagner’s Das Rheingold with the New York Philharmonic, which the New York Times called “riveting... a remarkable evening of music theater” and named it in its list of the Best Classical Music Performances of the Year. She has created new productions of Rameau’s Platée for Garsington Opera, Verdi’s La traviata for Santa Fe Opera, Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula for Boston Baroque – reviving the latter for Philharmonia Baroque – and both Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites for The Juilliard School. In addition, she has directed concert stagings of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Edinburgh International Festival and Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp. Future seasons see Louisa make debuts with the Metropolitan Opera, the Musik Theater an der Wien and the Canadian Opera Company, and she returns to both the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Garsington Opera.

November 2025