Brian Staufenbiel

Brian Staufenbiel is the Creative Director for Opera Parallèle, where he has directed and created the conceptual designs of the company’s productions since it was founded in 2010. Specializing in multimedia, immersive, and interdisciplinary productions, he actively works across a wide range of artistic disciplines, collaborating in film and with media designers, choreographers and dancers, circus artists, and designer fabricators. His progressive approach to stagecraft has garnered critical acclaim for many of the company’s productions, including Wozzeck, Orphée, Champion, Dead Man Walking, and The Shining. This season includes a world premiere production of Cuomo and Patrick Shanley’s Doubt with Opera Parallèle and this production of Philip Glass’ La Belle et la Bête, with repeat productions of The Shining at Portland Opera, Utah Opera, and Opera Tampa, and Fellow Travelers at Pittsburgh Opera. Last season included world-premiere productions of Hanlon and Fleischmann’s The Pigeon Keeper, Wallace and Korie’s Harvey Milk Reimagined, and Talbot and Scheer’s Everest at the Planetarium. Recent work includes OP’s West Coast premiere of Spears and Pierce’s Fellow Travelers, and Golijov’s Ainadamar for Opéra de Montréal and Pacific Opera Victoria. Other recent work includes new productions of Moravec and Campbell’s The Shining and the West Coast premiere of composer David T. Little and librettist Royce Vavrek’s Vinkensport, combined with a world premiere by composer Karpman and Collins’ Balls. Staufenbiel co-directed, with choreographer Yayoi Kambara, IKKAI, a dance installation about Japanese incarceration camps in the United States during World War II, which was performed at Georgia Tech.