Ted Huffman

General Management
Biography
Ted Huffman is a writer and director for the stage. He was recently named General Director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival; his programming will begin in the summer of 2028.

In the 2026-27 season, Ted returns to the Palau des les Arts Valencia for a new production of Carmen and to De Nationale Oper Amsterdam to stage Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (Berlioz version), co-produced with Musiktheater an der Wien and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where it will be shown later in the season. There will also be revivals of his productions of Psychosis 4.48 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and of Otello in Nancy and Luxembourg, among other projects.

His recent work includes The Cunning Little Vixen (Staatsoper Berlin),  The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor (Aix-en-Provence Festival), Werther (Opéra Comique), Tosca (Glyndebourne), Otello (Opéra national du Rhin), We Are the Lucky Ones (Amsterdam, Ruhrtriennale, Tiroler Festspiele Erl), Eugene Onegin (Covent Garden), Street Scenes (Paris Opera Académie), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Versailles, Cologne, Rennes, Valencia, Toulon, Nederlandse Reisopera), The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Manchester International Festival, Park Avenue Armory, Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Southbank Centre, Bregenzer Festspiele), Denis & Katya (Opera Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Montpellier, Hannover, Southbank Centre, Pittsburgh, Music Theatre Wales), 4.48 Psychosis (Covent Garden, Prototype Festival, Strasbourg), The Time of Our Singing (Brussels, St. Gallen), Svádba (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Luxembourg, Angers-Nantes, Ljubljana Festival), Les mamelles de Tirésias (Aldeburgh Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Amsterdam, Brussels, Valencia), Roméo et Juliette (Zurich), Madama Butterfly (Zurich, Montpellier), The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Zurich), Rinaldo (Frankfurt), Salome (Cologne), Le premier meurtre (Lille), Trouble in Tahiti (Amsterdam, Valencia), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Montpellier), and Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Copenhagen, Montpellier).

Ted’s productions have garnered awards and nominations from the Olivier Awards, International Opera Awards, Opernwelt Awards, Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, Fedora Generali Prize, UK Theatre Awards, Reumert Awards, South Bank Sky Arts Awards and Ivor Novello Awards.

He studied Humanities at Yale University before apprenticing at San Francisco’s Merola Opera program and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2017.

 
ANY PUBLIC USE OF THE ABOVE TEXT IS NOT PERMITTED WITHOUT SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATION OF SOREK ARTISTS MANAGEMENT.
1480
1733
single-artists.php