Nicolette Molnár - Stage Director

Nicolette Molnar's productions are been seen with increasing frequency in the U.S. and in Europe. In recent seasons, she has directed Cosi fan tutte for the Santa Fe Opera, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and English National Opera, Fidelio for the Bregenz Festival, Der Fliegende Holländer and Don Giovanni for The Atlanta Opera, Street Scene for the Portland Opera, Romeo et Juliette for Utah Opera, Eugene Onegin for Opera Ontario, Don Giovanni for Wolf Trap Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Der Fliegende Holländer, Tosca and Turandot for the Orlando Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos and I Capuletti ed i Montecchi for the Castleward Opera, Northern Ireland, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Academy of Music, Madama Butterfly for Co-Opera in Ireland, Lakme for the Dublin Grand Opera, Maria Stuarda for the Caledonian Opera, Finissy's Vaudeville at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, L'Elisir d'Amore in Lucerne, Balfe's The Rose of Castile for the Wexford Festival, The Turn of the Screw at the Mendelssohn Theater, University of Michigan, and The Abduction from the Seraglio for Lake George Opera.

Ms. Molnar was educated at Columbia University and studied directing under Götz Friedrich in Hamburg, Germany. She also worked as an assistant director for Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa Fe, and Houston before returning to England to become a staff director for the English National Opera.