Chris Alexander
Director

Chris Alexander made his U.S. debut at Seattle Opera directing Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov in 2000. He has returned to the company to stage Verdi’s Falstaff, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Johann Strauss Jr.’s Fledermaus, Rossini’s Italiana in Algeri, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Richard Strauss’s Elektra. Alexander was named Artist of the Year in 2004 for Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and the following season for Offenbach’s Contes d’Hoffmann. Alexander’s many European productions include Rossini’s Viaggio a Reims, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, and Verdi’s Otello in Mannheim; Rossini’s Cenerentola in Munich; Rossini’s Barber of Seville and the German premiere of Battistelli’s Prova d’orchestra in Dusseldorf; Bizet’s Carmen and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades in Bern; Wagner’s Fliegende Holländer in Linz; and Puccini’s Bohème in Hannover. Recent productions include Mozart’s Magic Flute and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Hanover, L’Italiana in Algeri in Pittsburgh and Dallas, and Ariadne at Washington National Opera. He returns to Seattle to stage The Magic Flute in May 2010. Founder of the Bremer Shakespeare Company, Alexander has directed more than sixty plays in Germany and Switzerland, has translated many of Shakespeare’s works, and with his wife wrote the play Shakespeare in Trouble.