Talia Stern

Talia is a French-American opera director, joining the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House in the 2025/26 season. She is interested in creating bold and physical theatre that challenges the boundaries of the operatic form. She has a Master’s with Distinction in Opera Directing from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and a Bachelor's in English with Film from King’s College London. She also has a diploma in Opera Directing from the Accademia Europea di Firenze. Recent productions include the award-nominated The Rape of Lucretia (British Youth Opera), for which she was selected as BYO’s first trainee director, Der Schauspieldirektor (David Seligman Opera School), Opera Scenes (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), and the short film Palimpsest (co-production with Opera Fuoco and American Embassy of Paris). As assistant director, Stern has worked on Il turco in Italia at Glyndebourne and will assist on Le nozze di Figaro in Summer 2025. She has also assisted on The Makropulos Affair at Scottish Opera and Death in Venice at Welsh National Opera. She will be making her Royal House Debut directing the Jette Parker Artists’ Three Chamber Operas in Spring 2026.