Alison
Pogorelc

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An Unexpected Odyssey: Longe mala, umbrae, terrores

Early Music Now Film

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Sleep hath its own world

Luigi Rossi “Dormite, begl’occhi”; Claudio Monteverdi “Oblivion soave”; Anonymous “Dimmi sogno pittore”

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Che si può fare?

Barbara Strozzi

(She/Her) Alison Pogorelc is an American director of opera, theater, and film known for her innovative and multidisciplinary approach to storytelling.

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Career Highlights/Education

The Glimmerglass Festival

Young Artist Assistant Director: Die Feen , 2020

The New School

BFA Dramatic Arts- Stage Direction , 2016-2020

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Recent Highlights

Champion

Assistant Director

The Metropolitan Opera

The Knock

Assistant Director

Cincinnati Opera

Agrippina

Director

University of Cincinnati - Conservatory of Music

Ariane et Barbe-bleue

Director

West Edge Opera

Studio Showcase

Director

Wolf Trap Opera

Idomeneo

Assistant Director

The Metropolitan Opera

Little Mahagonny

Assistant Director

Florentine Opera

Die Zauberflöte

Director

The Glimmerglass Festival

Il Trovatore

Assistant Director

The Glimmerglass Festival

On Trac|<

Assistant Director/Assistant Producer

The Glimmerglass Festival

Sleep hath its own world

Director

Early Music Now

Die Feen

Assistant Director

The Glimmerglass Festival

Ariadne auf Naxos

Assistant Director

Cincinnati Opera

Biography

Alison Pogorelc is an American director of opera, theater, and film known for her innovative and multidisciplinary approach to storytelling.

In the 2022-23 season, she joined the assistant stage directing staff at the Metropolitan Opera and made her West Coast debut with a highly praised production of Paul Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue for West Edge Opera. The production was selected as Best of 2022 by the San Francisco Chronicle and Mercury News. Alison also directed the Studio Showcase at Wolf Trap Opera and Handel's Agrippina at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She was recently honored with the National Opera Association's JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Stage Director Fellowship and OPERA America's Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize for her concept of Strauss’ Salome. (Read more: https://www.alisonpogorelc.com/biography)

Press Quotes

"Alison Pogorelc's staging was at once bold and subtle, with a geometric scaffold serving as the castle edifice and deftly transforming into a dungeon in Liliana Duque Piñiero's set and Pamila Gray's murky, muted lighting. "

— Opera Magazine

"Beginning with Paul Dukas’ lush opera, director Alison Pogorelc delivers a gorgeous and deeply clever production—imparting her own interpretation, as well as allowing us room to choose our own. Pogorelc’s unique talent challenges us to engage—desperately needed in today’s operas."

— Theatrius

"...A score of ravishing beauty and endless invention, a breathless fusion of Richard Wagner and Claude Debussy that turns this oddly gruesome fairy tale into something powerful and strange. And Sunday’s performance at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland, dexterously staged by director Alison Pogorelc... made the best imaginable case for the work. "

— The San Francisco Chronicle