Described as having “a gift for translating classic symbolism into familiar detail" with work that is “transfixingly personal,” EVE SUMMER returns to the Princeton Festival following last year’s Tosca. This season Eve also directed La traviata (Opera Columbus); H.M.S. Pinafore (Opera Grand Rapids); Roméo et Juliette (The Opera Institute at Boston University); Sankaram and Rourke’s The Jungle Book (Resonance Works); The Pirates of Penzance (Tulsa Opera), and Menotti’s The Last Savage (Odyssey Opera). Hailed “a star of stage directing whose approach refreshes hope for the future of opera,” Eve has recently directed at The Glimmerglass Festival, The Curtis Institute, Opera Saratoga, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Knoxville Opera, Opera Tampa, The Connecticut Early Music Festival, Opera Carolina, Annapolis Opera, Opera Orlando, and the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at UNCSA, among others. Next season, Eve returns to The Curtis Institute for Orlando Paladino, Annapolis Opera for The Pirates of Penzance, Tulsa Opera for Così fan tutte, and debuts at Pensacola Opera with L’elisir d’amore.