Mr. Spangler recently returned from San Fransisco working with director Elkhanah Pulitzer and composer Mark Grey on a groundbreaking new state-of-the-art mobile opera Birds in the Moon partnering with the New York Philharmonic, The Broad Stage Los Angeles, and Melon Foundation, featured in the NY & LA Times. He is also a recent recipient of a 2021-22 Arts Council England award as a developing artist, writer and director. Mr. Spangler has worked at the Royal Opera House, LA Opera, Bregenz Festpiel, Opera North, The Globe, and Glyndebourne Opera as a Movement & Action Director teaching in-house on their Young Artist Programmes or on main house productions. When he isn’t working in opera, Mr. Spangler works in film, TV, music videos and commercials choreographing on feature films such as Ronin 47 with Keanu Reeves, Romans with Orlando Bloom, Michael Winterbottom’s The Face of an Angel with Daniel Bruhl and Kate Beckinsale, and Netflix’s iBoy, Offbeat, and Allies, winning international awards and acclaim for film projects Embrace life and Carpool, in Rome, Cannes and New York.
Austin Spangler at The Dallas Opera:
Hansel and Gretel (2022/2023, debut)