Kristine McIntyre has directed more than 100 operas with a focus on new, contemporary and American works, including the world premieres of Laura Kaminsky and Kimberly Reed's Hometown to the World at the Santa Fe Opera and Town Hall NYC, Kristin Kuster and Mark Campbell's A Thousand Acres for Des Moines Metro Opera based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, the planetarium opera Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt, and the opera film Unknown for UrbanArias based on the song cycle by Shawn Okpebholo and Marcus Amaker. Her recent technologically innovative immersive production of Bluebeard's Castle, a collaboration with world-famous visual composer Oyoram, was met with great critical and audience acclaim. Her new production with Oyoram of The Cunning Little Vixen will premiere at Des Moines Metro Opera in the summer of 2025, the first in a multi-year series of planned works together.

Other recent productions include Moby Dick, Dark Sisters, Flight, Wozzeck, Dead Man Walking, Billy Budd and Manon (regional Emmy awards), the world premieres of The Place Where You Started, Mirror Game, Jane Eyre and John Brown; new productions of Peter Grimes, Jenüfa, Sweeney Todd, Trouble in Tahiti, The Seven Deadly Sins, Street Scene, As One, Glory Denied, Soldier Songs, Florencia en el Amazonas, The Coronation of Poppea, Semele, Vanessa, Of Mice and Men, The Human Voice, The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, The Turn of the Screw, Eugene Onegin, La bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, La cenerentola, Cosi fan tutte, Un ballo in maschera, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Werther and Les Contes d'Hoffmann, as well as the world premieres of Louis Karchin's Jane Eyre for the Center for Contemporary Opera, The Place Where You Started by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt at Art Share LA, Mirror Game by Celka Ojakangas and Amy Punt, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant by Evan Meier and E.M. Lewis and Kirke Mechem's John Brown for Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Upcoming projects include a revival of her film-noir inspired Don Giovanni, the world premiere of Woman With Eyes Closed by Jennifer Higdon and Jerre Dye, La bohème at Opera Colorado, and a new co-production of Of Mice and Men led by Houston Grand Opera and her first engagement with Music Academy in Summer of 2025.

In addition to her opera film Unknown, Kristine has directed many other projects for the digital realm, including the Studio Artist Showcase for Houston Grand Opera in 2020 and 2021, a recital series for the Portland Opera's Resident Artist program and the Women in Politics recital featuring works by Stacey Garrop and Jake Heggie for Portland Opera at Home. She collaborated with several companies on the filming of her bilingual Spanish-English adaptation of The Barber of Seville, one of the many operas she has adapted and directed for education and community opera programs throughout the country.

Passionate about the training of the next generation of opera artists, Kristine has also taught and directed in many young artist programs, including those at Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, Pittsburgh Opera and The Santa Fe Opera. She regularly mentors young directors, composers and librettists and serves on the steering committee of the Women's Opera Network at Opera America.

Kristine began her opera career at the San Francisco Opera and then spent eight years on the directing staff of the Metropolitan Opera where she directed numerous revivals. With a background in theater, Kristine founded and was the artistic director of everyman, a San Francisco-based theater company. She also collaborated with Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater with whom she co-created pieces of dance / spoken word theater including Skywatch! and Bird Lady, which explores the life and work of street photographer Vivian Maier. For many years, she was a reader and educator for the Playwrights Project, critiquing plays as part of their California-wide playwriting competition. Kristine holds a B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University, spent her junior at Oxford University studying and directing Shakespeare and has an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Hull in England.

London-based conductor William Long continues to showcase his “masterful command of challenging, multi-stylistic works” (Opera News) with some of the world’s premier musical institutions. Recent highlights include his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra at The Barbican, conducting Washington National Opera’s production of Carmen and the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones with Opera Theater Saint Louis and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

This upcoming season, Long returns to The Metropolitan Opera to cover Terence Blanchard’s Champion, San Francisco Opera for the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra and concerts with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra & Chorus, and Washington National Opera for La bohème. Long will also continue his relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra as a Cover Conductor where he has assisted in a wide variety of programs since 2020, working with Sir Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, and John Wilson. He also continues his posts at the prestigious Music Academy in Santa Barbara, California.

Long’s previous work has included appearances as Cover Conductor at the Kennedy Center for productions of Eugene Onegin, Candide, and the world premieres of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up and Terence Blanchard’s Champion. A native of California, he has worked extensively with San Francisco Opera as Assistant Conductor on productions of Arabella, Hänsel und Gretel, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, and with Los Angeles Opera as Cover Conductor for Gordon Getty’s Usher House and The Canterville Ghost.

From 2013-2018 Long served as Assistant Conductor at San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle, where he prepared productions of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and At the Statue of Venus, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness, and Philip Glass’ Les enfants terribles, among other projects.

Long holds a B.A. in Piano Performance and an M.A. in Conducting from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied with Maria Ezerova and Nicole Paiement. He also studied with Harold Farberman at the Conductor’s Institute at Bard College and Vance George at Westminster Choir College.

STELLA FITZGERALD 23, born in Austin, Texas, is earning her master's degree in voice performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), studying with Elliot Madore. Roles include Presendia in Dark Sisters at CCM, Nancy in Albert Herring at Chicago Summer Opera, and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel at Miami Music Festival.

ZIHAO LIU 26, born in Chongqing, China, is earning his Doctor of Music Arts at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, studying with Jerold Siena. He has performed as Tenor Soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy at University of Illinois, and as Lord Tolloller in Sullivan and Gilbert's Iolanthe and Schoolmaster in Janeček's The Cunning Little Vixen at Bard College.

DAVID KAHNG 29, born in Cheonan, Korea, is earning his professional degree at Mannes College of Music, studying with William Burden and Joshua Greene. He was the Encouragement Winner at the 2021 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Georgia District. Recent roles include Melisso in Alcina at Mannes Opera and Barone in La Traviata at Wolf Trap Opera.

JAMIE FELIX-TOLL ('24) 21, born in Los Angeles, California, is earning his bachelor's degree at Oberlin College, where he has performed the roles of Pandolfe in Cendrillon, Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring, and The Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk. He won the 2025 Schmidt Undergraduate Competition (Upper Division) and the 2022 YoungArts Award.

JOSIE LARSEN 27, born in Sammamish, Washington, completed her Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory (NEC), studying with Bradley Williams. She placed third place in both the 2025 New England Region Met Opera Laffont and 2025 Shreveport Opera Young Artist competitions. Roles at NEC include Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Mimi in La bohème.

YULIN WANG 25, born in Dezhou, China, is earning his master's degree at Manhattan School of Music, studying with Cynthia Hoffmann. He won First Prize in the 2020 Korea & China International Music Competition, and the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition District Encouragement Award. Roles include Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Amore Opera.

ANTONIA SOFIA CÁCERES 26, born in Santiago, Chile, is earning her bachelor's degree at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with Susanne Mentzer. She won the Van Waynen Performance Award in 2025. Recent roles include Nora in Riders to the Sea by Vaughan Williams and Pamina in The Magic Flute by Mozart.