ABOUT

Nina is currently a Staff Director at Oper Frankfurt, where she has directed Ascanio in Alba at the Bockenheimer Depot, Ariadne auf Naxos (semi-staged) on the mainstage & Turandot for children, alongside critically acclaimed revivals such as Manon Lescaut, Rigoletto, and die ersten Menschen, among many others.

Nina trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and has a First Class degree in Drama from Exeter University. She attended The Operating Table course at the Royal Ballet & Opera, and the Channel 4 Theatre Director’s course at the Royal Court where she has also worked as a reader.

Nina’s further productions include opera world premieres Dear Marie Stopes (Alex Mills) developed at the Barbican and performed at the Wellcome Centre and King’s Place, London, A Telephone Call (Tom Randle) and The Physicists (Tim Burke) both for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, and Spilt Milk at the Arcola Theatre for the Grimeborn Festival (Time Out Critic’s Choice).

Following on from her acclaimed industry podcast: The Opera Pod, Nina developed and hosted OperaVision’s Next Generation podcast series from 2022-2024. Her upcoming podcast collaboration with Swap’ra is currently in development.

Other productions and concert performances include Didone Abbandonata for the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestpiele, East West Street for the Aldeburgh Festival, KiezPalast: City Life at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Acis & Galatea (Ludwigsburg Schlossfestpiele) & Der Mond (both semi-staged) with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and East West Street at the Genocide Memorial Museum in Rwanda with Natalie Dessay and Laurent Naouri. Previous productions include young artist productions of Le nozze di Figaro for the Saluzzo Opera Academy & the Berlin Opera Academy, Die Sache Makropulos at Theater Bonn as Associate Director to Christopher Alden, the world premiere of Swan’s Inlet at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York, Così fan Tutte, La Finta Giardiniera, Alcina, Die Lustige Witwe, L’incoronazione di Poppea and Die Zauberflöte (Time Out Critic’s Choice) all for Ryedale Festival Opera, If This is a Man at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre in London and an ongoing world tour of Philippe Sands’ East West Street to the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Southbank Centre in London, Berlin Konzerthaus, MuTh Vienna, 92nd St Y in New York, Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris and Melbourne Arts Centre among other venues worldwide.

Nina has worked as a visiting Staff Director for opera houses in Europe including the Royal Ballet & Opera in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North, and she has acted as a visiting director at the Royal College of Music, the Italian Opera Summer School, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Birkbeck University.