Elsa Rooke is an opera stage director and drama teacher. She has worked with leading opera companies across Europe and has taught young singers in prestigious academies. She also took part as a guest contributor at the Pernoo School of Musical Performance.
Elsa Rooke, born in Paris, is a stage director who studied literature and music at the Sorbonne and trained as a drama teacher with Alain Garichot at the Paris Opera School. In this capacity, she has taught many young singers, including those of William Christie’s Jardin des Voix, as well as students at the music academies of Lausanne and Geneva, and at the École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne.
She has worked closely with Adrian Noble, long-time director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, staging his productions in cities such as New York and Moscow.
Elsa Rooke has directed her own productions for opera companies in Lausanne, Bordeaux, Lyon and Geneva, as well as at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Her work includes The Turn of the Screw by Britten, La Cenerentola by Rossini, Idomeneo by Mozart, and Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck. She is also a librettist and translator, and has published short stories.
