Christopher Alden is happy to return to Dallas Opera to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of his debut with a production of the same opera he directed in 1978, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. He subsequently returned to Dallas to stage Berg’s Wozzeck and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Mr. Alden works regularly with many of the world’s most distinguished companies, including English National Opera Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Santa Fe Opera and The Festival d’ Aix en Provence. Mr. Alden’s English National Opera production of Handel’s Partenope received the Olivier Award for Best UK Opera Production as well as Australia’s Helpmann Award and his staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow won the Golden Mask Award for Best Russian Opera Production.