Sarah Ina Meyers is a stage director based in New York City, where she has been on the directing staff at the Metropolitan Opera since 2006. Her diverse 20/21 season included a staging of Die Walküre for New Orleans Opera featuring a cinematic installation by filmmaker Samantha Aldana, and a new production of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, which opened Berkshire Opera Festival to high acclaim.
In 2018, she directed the premiere of Gregg Kallor’s Dramatic Sketches from Frankenstein as part of the performance series, The Angel’s Share, at Green-Wood Cemetery. The production received rave reviews and was declared one of WQXR’s standout performances of 2018. Operawire described the performance as “riveting … an extraordinary experience” and Limelight extolled Meyers’s direction as “perfectly finessed…. Powerful and meticulous.”
In 2016, Meyers began working with Lesley Karsten and Stephen Wadsworth on That’s Not Tango, an unorthodox monodrama about Astor Piazzolla told through text and music. She directed performances of the show for Chamber Music Amarillo in 2021, and for Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2019.
Ms. Meyers made her directing debut in South Korea in 2019 with a new production of Rigoletto at the Seoul Arts Center. Additional highlights from her recent work include Hansel and Gretel for Washington National Opera, the world premiere of Gallo by Ken Ueno, and a unique production of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde produced by the Music School of Lighthouse International. She is also the author of a new translation and adaptation of Die Fledermaus, most recently performed by MassOpera.