About Irina Brook

Irina Brook is an internationally acclaimed opera and theatre director known for her bold and innovative productions. Her work in opera has garnered attention at some of the world’s most prestigious venues, with recent highlights including her return to the Wiener Staatsoper for Don Pasquale and to Teatro alla Scala for La Rondine. She recently made her Japanese opera debut with Carmen at the Tokyo Nikikai Opera.

Brook’s opera career began with a successful debut directing Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for the Nederlandse Reisopera. She has since directed a diverse range of operatic works including Yevgeny Onegin, La Cenerentola and La traviata. Her work at Teatro alla Scala includes Die Sieben Todsünden & Mahagonny-Songspiel and Il matrimonio segreto.

Born in Paris, Irina Brook grew up immersed in the arts, as the daughter of director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry. She moved to New York at 16 to study acting with Stella Adler, making her stage debut in Off-Broadway productions before transitioning to directing. Her breakthrough as a director came in London in 1996 with Beast on the Moon, followed by several successful productions including Mrs Klein and All’s Well that Ends Well.

In 2003, she founded Irina’s Dream Theatre in Paris, through which she has toured globally. From 2014 to 2021, she served as Director of Théâtre National de Nice, where she continued to push artistic boundaries and in 2021, she was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Teatro Stabile del Veneto. She was named Artist-in-Residence at Château d’Hardelot’s Elizabethan Globe Theatre in 2023.