Hailed as “a star of stage directing whose approach refreshes hope for the future of opera,” Eve Summer’s recent directing credits include Ariodante: Boston Baroque, Trouble in Tahiti: The Glimmerglass Festival, Rigoletto, Tosca, Don Giovanni: Opera Columbus, Così fan tutte, Les Mamelles de Tirésias/The Seven Deadly Sins, Albert Herring: The Curtis Institute, The Barber of Seville: Opera Saratoga, The Little Prince: Tulsa Opera, Don Giovanni: Opera Carolina, Le nozze di Figaro: Knoxville Opera, and L’elisir d’amore, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The Pirates of Penzance, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte: Opera Grand Rapids. Described as having “a gift for translating classic symbolism into familiar detail” with work that is “transfixingly personal,” and that “can only be described as brilliant,“ this 2025-26 season Eve returns to Tulsa Opera, Opera Columbus, The Princeton Festival, Resonance Works, The Opera Institute at Boston University, and Opera Grand Rapids to direct new productions of The Pirates of Penzance, La traviata, Madama Butterfly, Kamala Sankaram/Kelley Rourke’s The Jungle Book, Roméo et Juliette, and H.M.S. Pinafore, as well as debuting at Odyssey Opera with Menotti’s The Last Savage.
