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Ben Robinson is the General Director of Anchorage Opera, the Artistic Director of Opera Ithaca (New York) and Raylynmor Opera (New Hampshire), as well as the Managing Director of Lyric Fest (Philadelphia). He works as a director, librettist, educator, and arts administrator. As a stage and film director, he has mounted numerous productions, highlighted by new productions for which he also wrote new English libretti:  Madame Butterfly, Macbeth, Hansel and Gretel, The Barber of Seville, The Impresario, Die Fledermaus and Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon. Ben's film production of Bastien and Bastienne, with his original English libretto setting the action in the social media-obsessed present, was released in March 2021 and subsequently streamed at the Arlington International Film Festival. He directed and edited a film release of Pagliacci for Raylynmor Opera in October 2020 and directed Gianni Schicchi for Opera Ithaca, which Opera Magazine heralded as the "deftest use... of Covid-era technology as part of modern operatic reality." He was announced as a 2021 recipient of the Ewing Arts Award, which celebrates the diversity and excellence of artists in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. In February 2023, his 2022 "moving, visually daring" (Opera News) Julia Child-inspired Hansel and Gretel film joined the Opera Philadelphia Channel.Upcoming projects include Gianni Schicchi with Opera Steamboat, Scalia/Ginsburg and Rusalka with Opera Ithaca, L'elisir d'amore with Anchorage Opera and Annapolis Opera, The Light in the Piazza with Opera in the Heights, and The Pirates of Penzance with Raylynmor Opera. Resonance Works Pittsburgh will present his adaptation of Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon in fall 2023.Directing highlights include a soap opera-inspired Così fan tutte (Cedar Rapids Opera), L'italiana in Algeri (St. Petersburg Opera), a suburban American Le nozze di Figaro (Opera Ithaca/Raylynmor Opera), a reimagined double blind production of The Medium (Amarillo Opera), a fashion-world inspired La Cenerentola (Raylynmor Opera), a new chamber production of Suor Angelica (West Texas A&M University), and the world premiere of Sally Lamb McCune's We Wear the Sea Like a Coat (Opera Ithaca/Ithaca College).

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