Ben Robinson is the General Director and CEO of Kentucky Opera, General Director of Anchorage Opera, and Artistic Director of Raylynmor Opera (New Hampshire). He works internationally as a director, librettist, designer, and producer, and is widely recognized for “inspired” and “engaging” storytelling across a repertoire spanning Baroque to contemporary opera.

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Directing highlights include Nabucco for the inaugural Opera Ithaca Festival; L’elisir d’amore for Anchorage Opera; and a cruise-ship reimagining of L’Italiana in Algeri alongside A Little Night Music for St. Petersburg Opera—both earning nominations for Best Director from Theatre Tampa Bay—and Opera in the Heights, praised by Opera News as “physically lively.” His work also includes a soap-opera–inspired Così fan tutte and a “deftly directed” (Opera News) Cendrillon for Cedar Rapids Opera; Ariodante (First Place, Division V, National Opera Association) and Hänsel und Gretel for Temple University; Orpheus in the Underworld for Opera Ithaca and Raylynmor Opera; a suburban American Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Ithaca; a reimagined The Medium for Amarillo Opera; a fashion-world–inspired La Cenerentola for Raylynmor Opera; L’enfant et les sortilèges for Salt Marsh Opera; and the world premiere of Sally Lamb McCune’s We Wear the Sea Like a Coat for Ithaca College.

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In 2020, Robinson directed the internationally acclaimed film Gianni Schicchi for Opera Ithaca, which Opera Magazine hailed as “the deftest use… of Covid-era technology as part of modern operatic reality.” He is a 2021 recipient of the Ewing Arts Award, honoring artistic excellence in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region. His film Bastien and Bastienne (January 2021), featuring his original English translation, was selected for the Arlington International Film Festival. In February 2023, his 2022 Julia Child–inspired Hänsel und Gretel, described by Opera News as “moving” and “visually daring,” joined the Opera Philadelphia Channel and was later streamed in a series of outdoor public events for the company in September 2023.

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Upcoming projects for the 2025–2026 season include Carmen (Bay View Music Festival), Carousel (Will Rogers Stage Foundation), The Medium | Gianni Schicchi and Aida (Anchorage Opera), Acis and Galatea and Bluebeard’s Castle (Ithaca College), La Cenerentola (Salt Marsh Opera), and Macbeth (Opera Tampa).