Talia Stern is a young French-American opera stage director based in London. From 2022-2024, she trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she received an MA in Opera Directing. She was the first trainee director for British Youth Opera’s summer production, The Rape of Lucretia in August 2024. This summer, Talia will be directing Juliana Hall’s A World Turned Upside Down - The Diary of Anne Frank at Waterperry Opera Festival. 

PRESS

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA | BRITTEN | BRITISH YOUTH OPERA

★★★★ THE GUARDIAN

“Director Talia Stern transforms an idealised tale of sexual violence in Rome into a shatteringly visceral, thoroughly contemporary show”

★★★★ THE STAGE

“Better portrayed here than on larger stages”

OPERA MAGAZINE

“It's not only the singers who are getting their moment in the sun— the director, Talia Stern, whose foremost achievement was to deflect attention from Ronald Duncan's derided libretto by bringing dramatic engagement to the fore and coaxing a tissue of subtext from every singer.”

Directing

A WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN - The Diary of Anne Frank

Waterperry Opera Festival | August 2025

Assistant Directing

Le Nozze di Figaro

Glyndebourne| Summer 2025