Ben Robinson is the General Director and CEO of Kentucky Opera, General Director of Anchorage Opera, and the Artistic Director of Raylynmor Opera (New Hampshire). He works as a director, librettist, educator, and arts administrator. As a stage director, he is best known for his “inspired” and “engaging storytelling” in diverse works ranging from Baroque to modern.

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Directing highlights include Nabucco for the inaugural Opera Ithaca Festival, L’elisir d’amore for Anchorage Opera, a cruise ship setting of L'Italiana in Algeri and A Little Night Music for St. Petersburg Opera (both garnering nominations for Best Director, Theatre Tampa Bay) and Opera in the Heights ("physically lively" - Opera News), a soap-opera inspired conceptual production of Così fan tutte and a Cendrillon ("deftly directed" -Opera News) 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 production of 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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He directed the internationally acclaimed film, Gianni Schicchi, for Opera Ithaca in 2020, which Opera Magazine heralded as the "deftest use... of Covid-era technology as part of modern operatic reality." He was announced as a 2021 recipient of the Ewing Arts Award, which celebrates the diversity and excellence of artists in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. His January 2021 film Bastien and Bastienne, featuring his original English translation, was selected and featured by the Arlington International Film Festival. In February 2023, his 2022 "moving, visually daring" (Opera News) Julia Child-inspired Hansel and Gretel film joined the Opera Philadelphia Channel and was subsequently streamed at a series of outdoor events for the company in September 2023.​

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