Robert Chevara

Award-Winning Theatre & Opera DirectoR

Robert Chevara is an award-winning theatre and opera director who divides his time between London and Berlin. He is currently an Associate Director at the King's Head Theatre in London, and was previously a Director of Productions at the English Touring Opera.

Opera productions include Die Fledermaus (his own new version, King's Head Theatre), West End Girl (a new version of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, King's Head Theatre); La Voix Humaine (Cocteau/Poulenc, Stockholm Opera House, awarded Best Contemporary Opera production); Powder Her Face (Thomas Adès, Ystad Opera Festival, Sweden, awarded Best Contemporary Opera Production); Potent Shakespeare (Toovey, Festival Hall, London); To Be Sung (world premiere by Pascal Dusapin, Banff Centre); Madama Butterfly (Puccini, Opera New Zealand); Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's Macbeth, Beethoven's Fidelio, Massenet's Werther (all English Touring Opera); Hand of Bridge by Barber; Blue Monday by Gershwin; and Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti (all Barbican Centre, London); Mozart's Magic Flute (European Chamber Opera, London); Dvorak's The Cunning Peasant; Poulenc's Le Dialogue des Carmélites; and Britten's Albert Herring (all Guildhall School of Music & Drama); Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (Royal Opera House, Associate Director with David Freeman); Rossini's The Barber of Seville (Dublin Grand Opera); Maderna's Satyricon (Opera Factory/The Drill Hall, London); as well as numerous operas by Rameau, Haydn, Verdi, Bizet, Rossini, Handel, and Donizetti (all Royal Academy of Music).