Award-winning stage director Claire Choquette is an artistic force of nature whose concept for Richard Strauss’ Salome won Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer prize for an arresting cult-centric production. Recent directing credits include La Bohème at Shreveport Opera, Dust Bowl with The Verdigris Ensemble in Dallas, Alice Tierney by composer Melissa Dunphy and librettist Jacqueline Goldfinger at Boston University Opera Institute, L’incoronazione di Poppea at Red River Lyric Opera, and Handel’s Rodelinda at American Baroque Opera Company.

Finishing out this season, Claire will direct The Impresario at Opera Baltimore and Mark Adamo’s Little Women at the Harrower Summer Opera Workshop in Atlanta. She will also make her directing debut at Painted Sky Opera in Oklahoma City with Lucia di Lammermoor this summer.

As the assistant director at The Dallas Opera Outreach, Claire worked on productions of The Elixir of Love and The Billy Goats Gruff. Last summer she held a residency at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where she served as the Apprentice Assistant Stage Director and worked on productions of Tosca and Susannah.

Choquette was the resident assistant director at Painted Sky Opera for its 2021–2022 season, assisting productions of Pagliacci, Carmen, and Scalia/Ginsburg. While pursuing her master’s degree at Louisiana State University, she assistant directed Massenet’s Manon and sang the roles of Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Dot (Sunday in the Park with George), Olga (Eugene Onegin), and Zosia (Two Remain), among others.