Allen Hahn

Allen Hahn has designed productions for New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Lincoln Center Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, Chicago Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, the Spoleto USA Festival and the influential New York company Gotham Chamber Opera.

He has designed world premiere operas Miss Lonelyhearts at Juilliard and Kafka’s Trial for The Royal Danish Opera, where his award-winning Giulio Cesare with Andreas Scholl was recorded for DVD release from Harmonia Mundi.

Other international credits include the national premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Émilie for Finnish National Opera, La Finta Giardiniera and La Fanciulla del West for Opera Zuid, and Der Freischütz in Bilbao as well as companies and festivals in Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, Norway, and the UK.

He has worked with the cross-media performance company The Builders Association since its inception in 1994 and with artist Tony Oursler on installations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ARoS Kunstmuseum in Denmark. His work in the music world has ranged from designing for David Byrne in Central Park, to working with contemporary musical ensemble Alarm Will Sound at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.

His dance for camera work as a director and designer has been seen in the short films Breath Light Stone and Mutable Spirals of Ascension, which were featured in festivals in the US and internationally, with Breath Light Stone garnering awards in multiple categories.