Ted Huffman

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Biography
Ted Huffman is one of the most in-demand opera directors and librettists of his generation, known for his bold, contemporary vision and powerful storytelling. His work has earned critical acclaim and major awards across leading opera houses and festivals in Europe and the U.S. Beginning in 2026 he will take on the role of General Director of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Notable recent accolades include nominations at the 2022 International Opera Awards for Best Production (L’incoronazione di Poppea, Festival Aix-en-Provence) and Best World Premiere (The Time of Our Singing, La Monnaie). His staging of The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Stefan Wirth) for Opernhaus Zürich won Opernwelt’s Best World Premiere of 2022.

In the 2025–26 season, Ted Huffman will direct new productions of Otello (Opéra national du Rhin), Werther (Opéra Comique), The Cunning Little Vixen (Staatsoper Berlin), and Tosca (Glyndebourne).

Recent productions include Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera House, London), Oliver Leith’s arrangement of Britten’s The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), and We Are the Lucky Ones (Dutch National Opera and Ruhrtriennale), his fourth collaboration with composer Philip Venables, for which he also wrote the libretto.

His longstanding partnership with Venables has yielded several groundbreaking works. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, based on Larry Mitchell’s cult novel, premiered at Manchester International Festival and toured to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Bregenz Festival, Park Avenue Armory, Southbank Centre, Ruhrtriennale, and the Holland Festival, earning widespread praise as “irresistibly compelling” (The Guardian).

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