American stage director Alison Moritz’s current and future engagements include new productions of Don Giovanni Opera Philadelphia and Cincinnati Opera, Kevin Puts/Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree Glimmerglass Opera, Musto’s Later the Same Evening The Juilliard School and a revival of her production of Kevin Puts/Mark Campbell’s The Manchurian Candidate in Austin, which won four Austin Critics Table awards, including Best Production. She is the Artistic Director of Central City Opera Festival in Colorado.
Most recent productions include a landmark celebratory 50th Anniversary performance of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS at the Kennedy Center, Così fan tutte Washington National Opera, the world stage premiere of The Knock at Cincinnati Opera, as well as new productions of Faust at Wolf Trap Opera (a house debut) and Sir John in Love at Bard Music Festival. She also made her house debut at the Atlanta Opera, where she directed an original production of Candide, and led new stagings at Austin Opera (Les pêcheurs de perles), Palm Beach Opera (Madama Butterfly) and Edmonton Opera (Tosca).
Committed to contemporary American repertoire, Moritz has created and directed several world premiere productions including Proving Up (Mazzoli/Vavrek, Washington National Opera), Taking Up Serpents (Sankaram/Dye, Washington National Opera), The Knock (Vrebalov/Brevoort, Glimmerglass), and Chunky in Heat (Experiments in Opera, New York City).
Moritz’s multidisciplinary works include projects in film, television, and virtual reality. In autumn 2022, she made her television directing debut with the experimental Everything for Dawn, a ten-episode opera series airing on WNET and All Arts, rereleased by Opera Philadelphia in the spring of 2023. Her additional professional credits in opera include directing engagements at Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Omaha, Ravinia, Tanglewood and Portland Opera, Opera Colorado, New Orleans Opera, Madison Opera, Central City Opera and Opera Santa Barbara.
Originally from St. Louis, Moritz has forged an eclectic identity as an artist, blending her origins as a proud Midwesterner with the rich and varied cultural influences of cities and opera companies worldwide. She holds a B.A. in Music and Art History from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.M. from Eastman School of Music.
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News | Alison Moritz
News | Alison Moritz
"It pleases me to report that the Washington National Opera’s production of “Così fan tutte”….refrains from wrenching the opera out of its box. Rather, it gently removes it from its package, sets it upon the stage, displays its beauties like a precious antique, and polishes its flaws to a point where you can see your reflection in them. Directed by Alison Moritz, this “Così” throws an extra frame around itself, in which the characters, left to suffer their own daftness and each other’s cleverness, move through the action with the comic doom of a silent film. "
The Washington Post
"In the hands of director Alison Moritz (...) “Mass” felt less transfigured than restored: its details clarified, its highlights polished, its angles more keenly lit (…)Moritz’s staging — presented as a grand chapel under pendulous lanterns — does indeed crack a window and give “Mass” some much needed fresh air. The personal crisis of faith represented by the Celebrant (...) is expanded by Moritz into a community concern (…) Some of the most gripping passages of Moritz’s staging were those that allowed the orchestra to fully reveal itself (...)"
The Washington Post
