A stage director at the Metropolitan Opera since 1975, Bruce Donnell has worked in opera houses across the country and internationally. He studied at Friedelind Wagner’s Master Classes in Bayreuth in 1965 before joining the staff of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. His work at the Metropolitan includes Die Frau ohne Schatten with Birgit Nilsson, La Gioconda, Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, Arabella, Don Giovanni, La Fille du Regiment, and Fidelio, among many others. Winner of two Emmy Awards, his television credits from the Metropolitan include Lucia di Lammermoor with Joan Sutherland and Alfredo Kraus, Der Rosenkavalier with Kiri Te Kanawa and Tatiana Troyanos, Billy Budd and the Aida that marked Leontyne Price’s farewell to opera. Mr. Donnell's delightful direction for Hansel and Gretel at the Met, televised on Christmas Day in 1982 and recorded on Deutsche Grammaphone remains an undisputed classic.