American stage director James Robinson is Artistic Director at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where he has mounted productions including Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown, Terence Blanchard’s Champion, Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland, Peter Ash’s The Golden Ticket, John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, and John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China.

Elsewhere, Mr. Robinson has directed new productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, Giulio Cesare and Abduction from the Seraglio for Houston Grand Opera, Norma, Il Trittico and L’Elisir d’amore for the San Francisco Opera, Norma, Elektra and Nixon in China for the Canadian Opera Company and numerous productions for The Santa Fe Opera and New York City Opera. His work has also been seen at Australian Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Minnesota Opera and Chicago Opera Theater. Additionally, he has created productions of Bernstein’s Mass and Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher for the London Symphony Orchestra, Amadeus at the Hollywood Bowl, and other productions for Carnegie Hall and the Minnesota Orchestra.