Selected Essays

Staging the Unknown:
Directing an Opera Without a Tradition

Reflections on directing the first modern revival of Girolamo Abos’ Pelopida (1747)

To direct an opera with no performance history is to begin without inheritance.

Time as Dramaturgy: Staging Gluck Across Two Worlds

Il Parnaso confuso & La corona at the Valletta Early Opera Festival

Time in this production operates not as a backdrop, but as a structuring force.