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Brenna Corner
From: Atlanta, Georgia. LA Opera: associate director of Lucia di Lammermoor (2022, debut); associate director of Madama Butterfly (2024).
Brenna Corner is an international opera and theatre stage director working across the United States, Canada and Europe. She is also the artistic director of Pacific Opera Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
Select directing projects include: Il Trovatore (Washington National Opera); Tenor Overboard (Glimmerglass Festival); H.M.S Pinafore (Vancouver Opera); Carmen (Des Moines Metro Opera); Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera); Hansel and Gretel (San Diego Opera and Vancouver Opera); La Bohème (Calgary Opera); Dead Man Walking (Israeli Opera); La Bohème (Dallas Opera); Noye’s Fludd and Scalia/Ginsburg (Glimmerglass Opera); Sweeney Todd (New Orleans Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Cincinnati Opera and Houston Grand Opera); L’Elisir d’Amore (Vancouver Opera); Carmen (Atlanta Opera); and Cendrillon and La Clemenza di Tito (Manitoba Underground Opera).
She was the founding artistic director of Manitoba Underground Opera, which produces a festival of new operatic experiences each August in Winnipeg. She has also worked as a dramatic coach for training programs including The Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artist Program in Washington D.C.
Brenna made her directorial main stage debut in 2016 with a new production of Hansel and Gretel designed by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop for Vancouver Opera. This production has since toured North America, and was mostly recently produced for San Diego Opera as part of their 2019/20 season. She made her American directorial debut in 2017 with New Orleans Opera, creating a new production of Sweeney Todd.
During the COVID-19 pandemic she created new opera experiences through film including Don Giovanni for Seattle Opera, Carmen: Up-Close and Personal for Vancouver Opera, Dear Mom: a web series for Kentucky Opera and Green Envelopes for Manitoba Underground Opera.
Brenna was a member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program with Vancouver Opera and spent two years as the resident director for The Atlanta Opera Studio Artist Program. She is a certified member of Fight Directors Canada and has choreographed many fights for both opera and theatre.
She studied classical music at The University of Manitoba, and she has diplomas in theatre from Grant MacEwan College and The British American Drama Academy.
Learn more at BrennaCorner.com.
Brenna Corner is an international opera and theatre stage director working across the United States, Canada and Europe. She is also the artistic director of Pacific Opera Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
Select directing projects include: Il Trovatore (Washington National Opera); Tenor Overboard (Glimmerglass Festival); H.M.S Pinafore (Vancouver Opera); Carmen (Des Moines Metro Opera); Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera); Hansel and Gretel (San Diego Opera and Vancouver Opera); La Bohème (Calgary Opera); Dead Man Walking (Israeli Opera); La Bohème (Dallas Opera); Noye’s Fludd and Scalia/Ginsburg (Glimmerglass Opera); Sweeney Todd (New Orleans Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Cincinnati Opera and Houston Grand Opera); L’Elisir d’Amore (Vancouver Opera); Carmen (Atlanta Opera); and Cendrillon and La Clemenza di Tito (Manitoba Underground Opera).
She was the founding artistic director of Manitoba Underground Opera, which produces a festival of new operatic experiences each August in Winnipeg. She has also worked as a dramatic coach for training programs including The Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artist Program in Washington D.C.
Brenna made her directorial main stage debut in 2016 with a new production of Hansel and Gretel designed by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop for Vancouver Opera. This production has since toured North America, and was mostly recently produced for San Diego Opera as part of their 2019/20 season. She made her American directorial debut in 2017 with New Orleans Opera, creating a new production of Sweeney Todd.
During the COVID-19 pandemic she created new opera experiences through film including Don Giovanni for Seattle Opera, Carmen: Up-Close and Personal for Vancouver Opera, Dear Mom: a web series for Kentucky Opera and Green Envelopes for Manitoba Underground Opera.
Brenna was a member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program with Vancouver Opera and spent two years as the resident director for The Atlanta Opera Studio Artist Program. She is a certified member of Fight Directors Canada and has choreographed many fights for both opera and theatre.
She studied classical music at The University of Manitoba, and she has diplomas in theatre from Grant MacEwan College and The British American Drama Academy.
Learn more at BrennaCorner.com.