Sara Erde

Sara Erde is a director and choreographer for opera, theater, and film. She directed the 2024 AMFS production of Le nozze di Figaro and is honored to return this season as a scenes director, and choreographer for Renée Fleming's production of Così fan tutte. Erde is a longtime member of The Metropolitan Opera’s directing staff. As a revival stage director at the Met, she has staged La bohème, Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, and Carmen. Erde choreographed the recent Met productions of Don Giovanni, Fedora, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon Lescaut, Le nozze di Figaro, and Werther.

Other notable credits in opera include director for Maria de Buenos Aires (Alamo City Opera), and Outcast at the Gate (Center for Contemporary Opera), choreographer for Manon Lescaut (Baden-Baden), Madama Butterfly and Ariadne auf Naxos (Berkshire Opera Festival), Carmen (Washington National Opera and the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy), Ercole su’l Termodonte (Festival dei Due Mondi); associate director and choreographer for Roméo et Juliette and Madama Butterfly (Atlanta Opera); associate director for La forza del destino and Don Giovanni (Washington National Opera); and assistant director for Le nozze di Figaro (Santa Fe Opera and Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival).