Biography
American stage director Ted Huffman has created opera and theater productions throughout North America and Europe. New productions in 2012/13 include The Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies) for English Touring Opera, opening at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Les mamelles de Tirésias for the Aldeburgh Festival and the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, Threepenny Opera at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski, A Soldier’s Tale for the Greenwich Music Festival, Der Kaiser von Atlantis for Central City Opera in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony, Hänsel und Gretel for Pittsburgh Opera, Carmen for Opera Birmingham, and Apprentice Scenes for Santa Fe Opera; Ted also joins the directing staff of the Metropolitan Opera during the 2011-12 season for the revival of Billy Budd.
Ted co-founded the Greenwich Music Festival in Connecticut; he continues to serve as the company’s Artistic Director. At the festival, Ted has created productions of Poulenc’s La voix humaine, Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Henze’s El Cimarrón, for which he received a nomination for “Best Opera Direction 2010” in Opernwelt.
As a guest teacher and director, Ted has been engaged by many young artist development programs, including Canadian Opera Company’s Studio, LA Opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program, Pittsburgh Opera Studio and the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program.
Ted attended Choate Rosemary Hall and Yale University, where he majored in Humanities. He is also a graduate of San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program and the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme at the Aldeburgh Festival (UK). Ted apprenticed with director Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center.